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Dick Bagley

Alice Neel American
1946
Not on view
Richard Bagley (1920–1961) was a Greenwich Village documentary cinematographer. Two years after sitting for this portrait he came to prominence for his camerawork on Sidney Meyer's film The Quiet One (1948) and Lionel Rogosin's On the Bowery (1956). Neel captured the sensitivity and melancholy of the twenty-six-year-old Bagley by focusing on his deep-set eyes with their dark shadows and his attenuated right hand.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dick Bagley
  • Artist: Alice Neel (American, Merion Square, Pennsylvania 1900–1984 New York)
  • Date: 1946
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 30 × 25 in. (76.2 × 63.5 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Nina Baroness von Maltzahn, Betsy and Ed Cohen/Arete, A. Michael and Mercedes Hoffman, Michael and Beth Klein, Marjorie and Jeffrey A. Rosen, Familienstiftung Schultz-von Schacky (Berlin), Marlene and Dirk Ippen, Gahl Hodges Burt and Martin Indyk, Vedder family, Achim Moeller-Moeller Fine Art, 2014
  • Object Number: 2014.456
  • Rights and Reproduction: © The Estate of Alice Neel
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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