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Mother and Child, Havana
Alice Neel American
Not on view
One of her earliest paintings on the subject, Mother and Child, Havana was created while Neel was visiting Cuba with her husband, artist Carlos Enríquez. Neel’s experiences in Havana were formative, both artistically and politically. Besides being sensitized to poverty and its disproportionate impact on people of color, Neel was also exposed for the first time to artists and writers at the vanguard of artistic production. While in Havana, she painted her earliest pictures of Black and Brown sitters, as seen in this loving portrait of a family rendered with bravura brushwork.
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