Alice Neel is best known for her "Stark; unflinchingly realistic" portraits, a collection of souls handpicked from all strata of society.
Alice Neel was an American visual artist, who was known for her representations portraying companions, family, sweethearts, writers, specialists and outsiders. Her artworks have an expressionistic utilization of line and shading, mental intuition, and enthusiastic force. Neel was called "one of the best portrait artist of the twentieth century" by Barry Walker.