"Marisol"
1981
oil on canvas
42 x 25 in

"The American painter Alice Neel is recognized as one of the consummate modern portraiturists. She believed that portraits should do two things: They should, first, capture the complete person and, second, capture the Zeitgeist, the spirit of the age. During the sixties, seventies, and eighties, Neel painted a great number of luminaries, including artists Robert Smithson (1962) and Andy Warhol (1970); and dealers and museum curators such as Henry Geldzahler (1967) and Frank O'Hara (1960); as well as musicians, scientists, critics, and other professionals. Historian Patricia Hills refers to these as Neel's "gallery of Zeitgeist notables"

from Brown