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Ginny in Striped Shirt
Alice Neel American
Not on view
Patterns observed on and around her sitters facilitated Neel’s investigation of abstraction. This portrait of her future daughter-in-law foregrounds the painter’s signature blue stripes, which seem to sit as lines on the surface of the canvas as much as they define her sitter’s t-shirt. The painting also manifests Neel’s deliberate, distinctively unfinished style, a characteristic she believed lent her work a "modern" quality, in part, because it reveals the process of execution.
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