Alice Neel (1900 - 1984) American. Watercolor on Paper. Measure 8 1/2"in H x 6 1/2"in W and 12 1/4"in H x 10 1/4"in W with frame. One of the most important portrait painters of the 20th-century. Her bold, incisive portrait style, combining aspects of expressionism and realism, kept her out of the mainstream for many years. It was not until the 1960s that she received critical notice (when she was awarded the 1962 Longview Foundation Award for work shown at an exhibition for artists excluded from MOMA's 1962 show, Recent Painting, U.S.A.: The Figure"). Besides her portraiture, Neel's body of work also includes figurative works responsive to social issues. Also an outspoken leader of women artists. Positions: easel painter, Fed. Works Agency, 1935-42. Teaching: lecturer painting seminar, Univ. Pennsylvania Graduate School, 1971-72; lecturer, Skowhegan School Painting & Sculpture, summer 1972.