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Alice Neel in front of paintings

Alice Neel Documentary Film 1978

Providing a brief biographical sketch from her early marriage and the Great Depression through her later years in Spanish Harlem, the film also shows Alice Neel at work on a portrait of Lucille Rhodes, who co-directed with Margaret Murphy. Excerpted from Rhodes and Murphy’s “They Are Their Own Gifts” (1978), a triptych of “film portraits” about women artists that also includes chapters on the poet and activist Muriel Rukeyser as well as the dancer and choreographer Anna Sokolow. Cinematography by the legendary Babette Mangolte.

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