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Elizabeth in a Red Hat
Alice Neel American
Not on view
One of Neel’s last works, this portrait of her granddaughter manifests the bold and confident summary style of painting she embraced at the end of her life. A lively flat blue line delineates the counters of Elizabeth’s torso, while simple but energetic staccato brush marks evoke the polka dots on her hat and socks. Elizabeth’s pose is reminiscent of the one struck by Neel’s daughter Isabetta (also in this exhibition) and granddaughter Olivia in other paintings. Each projects a fearlessness and confidence that Neel appreciated and associated, in the case of Olivia and probably Elizabeth, too, with the positive impact of feminism on a new generation of young girls.
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