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Men from Bleecker Street
Alice Neel American
Not on view
This preliminary sketch for the painting Investigation of Poverty at the Russell Sage Foundation, also in this exhibition, shows the two down-and-out men who appear in profile on the right-hand side of the canvas. Neel’s precisely rendered lines possess a journalistic quality, though she tended to paint without aid of drawings throughout her career.