Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle
Public Programme
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![Painting by Alice Neel called Benny and Mary Ellen Andrews](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_constrained_small/public/images/2022-10/Alice%20Neel%20web%20image.jpg?h=cb9e0b44&itok=GePaR3za)
Our public programme will give you the opportunity to learn more about Alice Neel, whose vivid portraits capture the shifting social and political context of the twentieth century.
Events
![Marxist Girl painting by Alice Neel](/sites/default/files/styles/event_listing_small/public/images/2022-12/Marxist%20Girl_%20Irene%20Peslikis_1972%20copy.jpg?h=ebc8bd73&itok=oNz4ve8H)
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Art & design
Talks & events
Tour of Neel’s political spirit with Dr Matthew James Holman
Past event
Alice Neel: Hot Off The Griddle highlights Neel’s political sensibility. For this tour, Dr Matthew James Holman focuses on Neel’s most political subjects and the era’s alarmism over left-wing groups.
![painting by Alice Neel: Cindy Nemser and Chuck, 1975, Oil on canvas.](/sites/default/files/styles/event_listing_small/public/images/2023-02/Cindy%20Nemser%20and%20Chuck_COPY%2C%201975.jpg?h=bdaa6d39&itok=5j1pycBx)
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Art & design
Talks & events
Alice Neel: A Human Comedy - with Curator Eleanor Nairne
Past event
Neel explained in her artist statement of 1960: ‘I decided to paint a human comedy.’ For this special evening, curator Eleanor Nairne speaks about a few of her favourite paintings from the exhibition.