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Light
Alice Neel American
Not on view
Neel painted Light, one of her last large still lifes, at her home in Spring Lake, New Jersey, in the midst of declining health. Nevertheless, the work exudes an enduring and optimistic love of painting that reliably demonstrates the artist’s exploration of the relationship between realism and abstraction. Large passages of the composition blur distinctions between two and three dimensions, particularly her rendering of the shadow cast onto the floor and wall, which seems to reach out to the picture plane.
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