![]() ![]() ![]() Courtesy David Zwirner, New York/London and Victoria Miro, London ![]() ![]() These portraits show Neel’s love for and familiarity with the neighbourhood – its stars, its politics, its constant evolution – and is today an invaluable record of an important milieu.Ībdul Rahman (1964), Alice Neel. Cayton, who Neel painted in 1949, the year he moved to the area from Chicago, had co-authored the influential Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City four years previous. A relaxed portrait of Harold Cruse (1950) was made 17 years before he wrote The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, whereas Horace R. Childress had only recently embarked on her writing career, but later won acclaim for both her plays and her novels, which included Like One of The Family (1956) and A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ but a Sandwich (1973). In Alice Childress (1950) Neel crafts a portrait of the playwright, who was a member of the American Negro Theatre, that nods to her intelligence through her dignified pose and expression. Many were important civil rights activists, members of the immigrant community, and writers, who were not necessarily well-known at the time but would go on to be. ![]()
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