Neel

Went to the Met today for the Alice Neel show. It's a beaut but I don't really have a sense of how her portraiture-focused practice changed over the more than five decades of her career (she lived 1900-84). The exhibition is organized thematically rather than chronologically, intriguing in its own way... but I kept doing double takes on seeing a work from the 1930s or even the early 1920s that already was recognizably hers, and masterful. Guess I'll need to go again!