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Cindy Nemser and Chuck
Alice Neel American
Not on view
A champion of Neel’s work throughout the 1970s, Cindy Nemser (1937–2021) was a groundbreaking feminist art critic and curator who helped to found the periodical Women and Art and its subsequent iteration, Feminist Art Journal. While most of Neel’s sitters declined her frequent requests to pose nude, Nemser and her husband and co-editor of the Journal acquiesced, although she later recalled they were initially both "truly horrified" by the offer. Neel shows them sitting on her green Second Empire–revival sofa in a loving embrace, with Cindy playing a more prominent role than her supportive husband.
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