Over her long residence, she taught the young queen drawing and made numerous portraits of the royal family and members of the court. (dailyartfixx.com)
When she returned from her uptown wilderness to the fashionable Upper West side in the 1960s she was out of step with the contemporary scene, however Neel made a concerted effort to reengage with the New York art world painting numerous portraits of artists, curators and gallery owners, including the poet and MOMA curator Frank O'Hara, and artists Andy Warhol and Robert Smithson. (thepaintingimperative.com)
More recently, we have the arresting neo-expressionism of Chinese painters like Zhang Xiaogang (b. 1958) and Yue Minjun (b. 1962), landscapes by Peter Doig (b. 1959) and the Ukrainian artist Dmitry Kolujny, the extraordinary «egg» pictures of Alexander Vlasenko, as well as numerous portraits by a range of young painters, including the Irishmen David Nolan (b. 1966) and Conor Walton (b. 1970), among many others. (visual-arts-cork.com)