The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 19, 2024

Jackie Curtis and Ritta Redd

Jackie Curtis and Ritta Redd

1970
(American, 1900–1984)
America, 20th century
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

Did You Know?

Jackie Curtis, seen at right, was credited with pioneering the glam rock style of the 1970s.

Description

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 he sometimes collaborated. Typical for Neel, the personalities of her sitters are evident in this painting. Notably, Curtis takes center stage in the image, positioning his body to cast Redd in its shadow. Neel once commented that when “portraits are good art they reflect the culture, the time and many other things.”
  • 2009
    (Sotheby's, New York, 2009, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    2009–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Neel, Alice, and Jeremy Lewison. Alice Neel: Painted Truths. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2010. pp. 154-155, cat. 24 ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org
    Neel, Alice, and Jeremy Lewison. Alice Neel: Painted Truths. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2010. pp. 154-155, cat. 24 ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 117
    Quinn, Bridget, and Lisa Congdon. Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order). San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2017. Reproduced p. 110; mentioned pp. 111-112. ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org
    Lewison, Jeremy, Bice Curiger, and Alice Neel. Alice Neel: Painter of Modern Life. Brussels : Mercatorfonds ; Helsinki : Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery, 2016. Mentioned: p. 178, cat. 52; reproduced: p. 179 ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org
    Neel, Alice, and Angela Lampe. Alice Neel: un regard engagé. 2020, 87, 107. Mentioned: p. 87; reproduced: p. 87, ill. 3 and p. 107.
    Neel, Alice, Angela Lampe, Jeremy Lewison, Larne Abse Gogarty, E. Lebovici, Nathalie Ernoult, and Alice Neel. Alice Neel: An Engaged Eye. Woodbridge, Suffolk, England : ACC Art Books, in agreement with Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2021. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 106-107
    Pigeat, Anaël, and Alice Neel. Alice Neel: les émotions (Gladwyne, 1900-New York, 1984). Paris : Flammarion, 2022, 85. Reproduced: p. 85
    "Alice Neel: people come first." American Art Review 34, no.1 (Spring 2022): 138-141, 144. reproduction p.140
  • Alice Neel: People Come First. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 15-August 1, 2021); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum (March 12-July 10, 2022) https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/alice-neel.
    Alice Neel - Painter of Modern Life. Ateneum Art Museum/Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (June 10-October 2, 2016); Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands (November 5, 2016-February 12, 2017); Fondation Vincent van Gogh-Arles, 13200 Arles, France (March 4-September 17, 2017); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (October 13, 2017-January 14, 2018).
    Alice Neel: Painted Truths. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (organizer) (March 21-June 13, 2010); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (July 9-September 19, 2010); Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden (October 10, 2010-January 2, 2011).
  • {{cite web|title=Jackie Curtis and Ritta Redd|url=false|author=Alice Neel|year=1970|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2009.345