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Jackie Curtis and Ritta Redd

1970
(American, 1900–1984)
America
oil on canvas
Framed: 154.3 x 108.9 cm (60 3/4 x 42 7/8 in.); Unframed: 152.4 x 106.4 cm (60 x 41 7/8 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 2009.345
© The Estate of Alice Neel
Location: 229A Contemporary
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Jackie Curtis, seen at right, was credited with pioneering the glam rock style of the 1970s.

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Jackie Curtis (on the right), was a performer, writer, and singer, active in New York City’s downtown counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s, and part of Andy Warhol’s creative orbit. In this double portrait Alice Neel depicts Curtis, who was gender nonconforming, together with Ritta Redd, a friend with whom Curtis sometimes collaborated. Typical for Neel, the personalities of her sitters are evident in this painting. Notably, Curtis takes center stage in the image, leaning in front of and casting a shadow over Redd. Neel once commented that when “portraits are good art they reflect the culture, the time and many other things.”
A colorful oil painting of two people sitting closely next to each other, looking at us. The person on our left has a medium-light skin tone, curly shoulder-length blonde hair, and is wearing a yellow shirt and blue pants. The person on our right has a light skin tone, curly shoulder-length brown hair, and is wearing a white shirt and a black skirt.

Jackie Curtis and Ritta Redd

1970

Alice Neel

(American, 1900–1984)
America

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