Painted portrait of a person with hand under chin and intense, shadowed facial features.

Paintings

Elsie Rubin

c. 1958

Medium
Oil on canvas board
Dimensions
Overall: 15 15/16 × 13 15/16 in. (40.5 × 35.4 cm)
Accession number
96.244
Acquired
1996
Credit line
Gift of Elaine Graham Weitzen
Reproduction credit
© The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel and David Zwirner
Department
collection

About this work

Alice Neel, Elsie Rubin, c. 1958. Oil on canvas board, overall: 15 15/16 × 13 15/16 in. (40.5 × 35.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Elaine Graham Weitzen 96.244. © The Estate of Alice Neel. Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel and David Zwirner

Visual description

Portrait of a middle-age white woman with big eyes, bright red lips, large burgundy jewlery, and a black pompadour

Exhibitions featuring the artist

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