Alice Neel
(1900 - 1984)
 

Alice Neel was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers. Her career spanned from the 1920s to 1980s. Her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. She pursued a career as a figurative painter during a period when abstraction was favored, and she did not begin to gain critical praise for her work until the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Neel
https://www.aliceneel.com/biography/

Hartley
1966
Oil on Canvas
127 x 91.5 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.73438.html