Alice Neel American Artist 1900- 1984

"one of the greatest portrait painters of the 20th centuary, reinventing the genre by expresseing the inner landscapes of her subjects who included lumanaries such as Andy Warhol, Bella Abzug and Allen Ginsburg  as well as her neighbors in Spanish Harlem.

Directed by her grandson , Andrew Neel, this very personal film captures her struggled as a female artist, a single mother,and a painter who defied convention."

-from back of DVD