The late Alice Neel was one of the century’s most important portrait artists. The gallery’s retrospective exhibition of her paintings in 1978 was Neel’s first show in the southern United States.  Patricia Hills’ definitive biography, “Alice Neel,” published by Harry N. Abrams in 1983, features color photos of a number of works that were shown in that historic exhibition. These include “Kenneth Doolittle” on page 43, “Joe Gould” on page 50, “John in Striped Shirt” on page 74, “Judge Medina” and “Angela Calomaris” on page 87. The photo of Neel and her grandchildren on page 201 was taken in the gallery during her exhibition.

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Linda Touby’s new series is a stunning tour de force of how a master colorist makes an extraordinary painting seem simple. Her latest series, at first glance horizontal bands of complementary colors, on examination reveal a synergistic complex of underpainting and subtle visual and verbal messages, pushing the emotional envelope of abstract expressionism to its limits.

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