Artist Alice Neel, a collector of souls
In the 1978 documentary "Alice Neel: They Are Their Own Gifts," the artist said, "One of the reasons I painted was to catch life as it goes by, right hot off the griddle. ... "With me, painting was more than a profession; it was also an obsession. I had to paint."The late artist called herself "a collector of souls," and those souls are now ...