Screening
Artists on Film: Alice Neel
7 Mar 2018
Regular hours
- Wednesday
- 09:00 – 21:00
by appointment
Cost of entry
£5 / £3.50 concessions
Address
- 19-22 Charlotte Road
- London
England - EC22A 3SG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- The nearest underground station is Old Street (Northern Line City Branch). The School is a five-minute walk away. The school is a ten-minute walk or a five-minute taxi or bus ride from Liverpool Street (Central, District, Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith and City lines).
- The nearest mainline station is Liverpool Street. Kings Cross and Euston are 2 and 3 stops away on Northern line. There are also overland trains to Old Street and Moorgate, both within walking distance.
An extraordinary documentary which reveals the sacrifices Alice Neel made to live and paint as she wanted.
About
Directed by Andrew Neel, 2007, 52 mins
Thirty years after her death, Alice Neel remains one of the greatest portrait artists of the past century. In this exceptional documentary, Neel’s grandson charts the struggles of her life as a woman artist, as a single mother and as a painter who defied convention. Famed for her unsentimental portraits of New York personalities like Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg, as well as of her friends and relatives, Neel’s work revealed the inner life of her sitters. Andrew Neel delicately examines his grandmother’s complicated relationship with her children and the sudden fame she found in the last years of her life.