Daniel Algis Alkaitis, Class of 1965

Inscriptions

Signed and dated vertically, lower right: NEEL '67

Label

A young man—a friend of the artist’s son, and also a Dartmouth student—stares out intently, his hands on his hips. His gaze gives little away, but our own looking can reveal much more about the psychology of the sitter and the subtleties of how Neel paints the scene. Notice the complex use of color, from the green shadows on his body to the saturated tones of the off-center window. Neel painted his body with a strong blue outline, yet made it convincingly three-dimensional through brushy modeling.

From the 2024 exhibition Immersive Worlds: Real and Imagined, curated by Amelia Kahl, Barbara C. & Harvey P. Hood 1918 Senior Curator of Academic Programming and Neely McNulty, Hood Foundation Curator of Education

Daniel Algis Alkaitis and Alice Neel

I had just woken up,
when my friend’s mom told me to sit down.
“What?”
Buried deep in acrylic greens and red,
she reassured,
“Sit still, it will only be a minute.”
Then, she proceeded to paint me.
I was only looking for pancakes.
“Tell me about Julie.”
We just got married, I tell her.
“Don’t move too much,” she replies.
I have work to do, I whine.
“I know, I know,
but you don’t want this
to be inaccurate now, do you?”
A painter of people,
a collector of souls,
she calls herself.
Can’t I be anyone in this?
“With that scowl and those eyes,
you can be anyone, honey.”
Years later she would tell the world:
You can do anything
you will to do,
if you’re sufficiently tenacious
and interested,
you can accomplish
what you want
to accomplish
in this world . . .

 —Elizabeth Hadley, D’23, 2024 (Lebanon, New Hampshire)

Commissioned for the 2024 exhibition Immersive Worlds: Real and Imagined, curated by Amelia Kahl, Barbara C. & Harvey P. Hood 1918 Senior Curator of Academic Programming and Neely McNulty, Hood Foundation Curator of Education

Course History

SART 31, Painting II, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2012

SART 31, SART 72, Painting II, III, Colleen Randall, Spring 2013

SART 25, SART 31, SART 72, Painting I, II, III, Thomas Ferrara, Winter 2012

SART 25, SART 31, Painting I, II, Summer 2013

SART 25, Painting I, Tom Ferrara, Fall 2013

SART 31, SART 72, Painting II, Painting III, Jennifer Caine, Fall 2013

SART 25, Painting I, Tom Ferrara, Spring 2014

SART 17, Special Topics: Digital Painting, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2014

SART 20, Drawing II, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2014

SART 25, Painting I, Esme Thompson, Fall 2014

SART 25, Painting I, Enrico Riley, Fall 2014

SART 31, SART 72, Painting II, Painting III, Jennifer Caine, Fall 2014

SART 76, Senior Seminar I, Brenda Garand, Winter 2015

SART 31, Painting II, Enrico Riley, Winter 2015

SART 25, Painting I, Enrico Riley, Spring 2015

SART 31, SART 72, Painting II, III, Colleen Randall, Spring 2015

SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/Painting III, Colleen Randall, Fall 2019

SART 25.01, Painting I, Enrico Riley, Winter 2020

SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/III, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2020

SART 76, Senior Seminar, Jennifer Caine, Winter 2020

SART 15.02, Drawing I, Lucy Mink Covello, Winter 2020

SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/Painting III, Colleen Randall, Spring 2020

SART 25, SART 31, Painting I, Painting II, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2021

SART 25.01, Painting I, Tom Ferrara, Fall 2021

SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/III, Tom Ferrara, Fall 2021

SART 25.01, Painting I, Viktor Witkowski, Winter 2022

SART 25.02, Painting I, Viktor Witkowski, Winter 2022

SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/III, Jen Caine, Winter 2022

SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/III, Colleen Randall, Spring 2022

SART 31, SART 72, Painting II/III, Tom Ferrara, Summer 2022

SART 25.01, Painting I, Danielle Genadry, Summer 2022

SART 20/SART 71, Drawing II/Drawing III, Jack Wilson, Fall 2022

SART 31.01/SART 72.01, Painting II/III, Tom Ferrara, Fall 2022

College Course 35.01, Color in Art & Philosophy, Viktor Witkowski and John Kulvicki, Winter 2023

Studio Art 31.01/72.01, Painting II/III, Jen Caine, Winter 2023

Studio Art 31.01/72.01, Painting II/III, Colleen Randall, Spring 2023

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Jen Caine, Spring 2023

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Jen Caine, Fall 2023

Studio Art 31.01, Studio Art 72.01, Painting II, III, Andrew Shea, Fall 2023

College Course 35.01, Color in Art & Philosophy, John Kulvicki and Viktor Witkowski, Winter 2024

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Lucy Mink Covello, Winter 2024

Studio Art 15.02, Drawing I, Lucy Mink Covello, Spring 2024

Studio Art 25.01, Painting I, Jen Caine, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

"Collecting and Sharing: Trevor Fairbrother, John T. Kirk, and the Hood Museum of Art", Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 22-December 6, 2015.

Art of the 60's and 70's, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont, July 11-September 18, 2005.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April-August 2011.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 6, 1993-March 21, 1994.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-April 8, 1998.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 9-March 11, 2001.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 5-September 25,1995.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 19-September 7, 1993.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 1, 1996-June 22, 1997.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 17, 2000.

Critical Faculties: Teaching with the Hood's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 13, 2005.

Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-February 12, 1990.

Immersive Worlds: Real and Imagined, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 13-December 15, 2024.

Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 26,2009-March 15, 2010.

Second Stage of Modernism: Art from 1945 to the Present, William B. Jaffe, Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall, Churchill P. Lathrop, Friends and Owen Roberston Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 6-August 16, 1987.

Publication History

Kay Alexander and Michael Day, Learning to Look and Create: The SPECTRA Program, Menlo Park: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1992

Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New York: Hudson Hill Press, 1985, p. 148. no. 145.

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.60, no.36.

Collecting and Sharing: Trevor Fairbrother, John T. Kirk, and the Hood Museum of Art, with contributions by Katherine Hart, Michael R. Taylor, John O'Reilly and James Tellin, Trevor Fairbrother and John T. Kirk, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2015, p. 19, Fig. 1.5.

John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 177, ill. plate no. 108.

Provenance

Dr. Hartley S. Neel (artist's son); given to present collection, 1978.

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