Alice Neel

Blanche Angel Pregnant
1937

A painting of a seated woman with exaggerated features wearing a green dress. She has blue eyeshadow, red lips, and her hair is styled with curls on the sides. The background is abstract with muted colors, and the woman appears to be resting her hands on the surface she is sitting on.

A painting of a seated woman with exaggerated features wearing a green dress. She has blue eyeshadow, red lips, and her hair is styled with curls on the sides. The background is abstract with muted colors, and the woman appears to be resting her hands on the surface she is sitting on.

Not on view

Date
1937

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Pastel on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 26 × 20 1/2in. (66 × 52.1 cm)

Accession number
87.53

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee

Rights and reproductions
© The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel and David Zwirner

API
artworks/7160

Exhibitions

Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960

Apr 28, 2017–June 2, 2019
American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe

Dec 22, 2012–June 29, 2014

Alice Neel
11 works in the collection

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