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View from the Artist's Window
Alice Neel American
Not on view
Here the facade of a nearby building, seen from Neel’s Upper West Side studio/home, presses right up against the flat surface of the canvas, a convention the artist either consciously or unconsciously borrowed from modernist painting and which accounts in part for the work’s abstract quality.
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