Alice Neel: People Come First

Alice Neel: People Come First by Baum and Griffy is the official catalogue for the major retrospective of the celebrated American figurative painter Alice Neel, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The book presents the full scope of Neel's remarkable career, from her early Depression-era works to her later celebrated portraits of artists, activists, and ordinary people. Critical essays by leading art historians contextualise Neel's radical humanism and her place in the history of American portraiture. An essential volume for anyone interested in 20th-century American art, feminism, and the expressive power of the painted portrait.