DeYoung Museum: People Come First, Alice Neel: Docent Talk
Event Description: American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984) spent most of her life living and working in New York City, and her work testifies to the diversity, resilience, and passion of the people she encountered there. This talk by San Francisco Fine Arts Museums docent Ruth Modric explores Neel’s neighbors in Spanish Harlem, political leaders, queer cultural figures, activists, mothers, and a diverse representation of nude figures all of whom embody a candor and irreverence without precedent in the history of Western art. Together these works illuminate Neel’s uncompromising humanism, which still resonates with the theme of connecting with one another through the Power of Kindness, Resilience & Hope. Alice Neel: People Come First is the first comprehensive West Coast museum survey of her work.