“Alice Neel: Painted Truths Debuts” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

HOUSTON, TX.- Sixty-eight paintings by Alice Neel, the indomitable 20th-century portrait painter who captured the character of her time and the gamut of New York life over seven decades, are on view in “Alice Neel: Painted Truths” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Committed to portraiture throughout her life, an era when the genre was considered practically obsolete, Neel captured both the physical likenesses and the psychological essences of her sitters in bold, sometimes searing paintings. Neel painted neighbors [...]