Jan 1, 1953

MoMa Collection: Georgie Arce, Alice Neel, 1953

Oil on canvas.
Promised gift of Eva and Glenn Dubin.

“I love you Harlem,” Neel wrote in her diary in the early 1940s, “for the rich deep vein of human feeling buried under your fire engines.” Born in Pennsylvania, Neel lived from 1938 to 1962 in Spanish Harlem, where she painted portraits of her neighbors, fellow artists, political associates, family, and friends. A chance encounter with a boy named Georgie Arce on a local street sparked a lasting friendship. Neel went on to sketch and paint him several times. Here, she describes him in thick black contours and loose brushstrokes reminiscent of 1920s German Expressionism, an important aesthetic touchstone for her.

See Georgie Arce Here

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