Read our pick of the best New York art exhibitions to see in May, from retrospectives on Marcia Marcus, Alice Neel, and Sylvia Sleigh at Levy Gorvy Dayan to Amy Sherald at the Whitney Museum.

Also discover the first focused presentation of the late female artists Marcia Marcus, Alice Neel, and Sylvia Sleigh, who each worked in New York City in the decades of the 1960s,1970s, and 1980s. New ...

Alice Neel was an American painter known for her Expressionistic portraits of her friends, family, and lovers. Her dynamic use of color and line captured the interior emotional life of her sitters, ...

Ms. Golden’s early work was singular, even among artists exploring the male anatomy. Alice Neel had been painting male nudes for decades — her 1933 portrait of Joe Gould, the eccentric ...

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48.2 x 38.7 cm. (19 x 15.2 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

Thirty years after her death, Alice Neel remains one of the greatest portrait artists of the past century. In this exceptional documentary, Neel’s grandson charts the struggles of her life as a ...