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Sep 7, 2023 · Neel finds a job at a Greenwich Village bookstore run by Fanya Foss whom she will paint in a formal portrait, Fanya and in the satirical watercolor The Intellectual. Meets Nadya Olyanova, a graphologist, who will become one of her closest friends and a frequent subject in her work of the late 1920s and early 1930s.
We see Myers seated and nude, dressed only in pearls and a large blue hat. Myers’ figure is depicted with a dark outline and flat form of her body. This was a style Alice Neel used to counter a depiction of the female nudity as sexually enticing. In her 2002 book Alice Neel: Women.
Feb 16, 2023 · Alice Neel, Fanya (1930). Photo: courtesy of Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence. “Alice was definitely looking up to Fanya,” Tompkins said. It was during a trip across the U.S., heading west to see the country, that Foss got her break in Hollywood, with RKO Radio Pictures purchasing one of her scripts, kicking off her career in film and television.
ALICE NEEL & FANYA FOSS. Purchase Tickets. Cade Tompkins Projects’ booth at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Los Angeles, features a rare oil painting by Alice Neel (American, 1900-1984) entitled “Fanya” 1930, a portrait of the author and soon-to-be Hollywood screenwriter, Fanya Foss (Ukrainian, 1906-1995).
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Fanya Foss (sometimes credited as Fanya Lawrence or F.A. Foss, October 4, 1906 – December 12, 1995) was a Russian Empire-born American screenwriter, short story writer, and television writer active in Hollywood during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
Many know Alice Neel after the well-deserved and publicized traveling exhibition “People Come First” which originated at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, traveled to the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and just opened at the Barbican Centre, London, but not everyone knows Alice Neel’s portrait of Fanya Foss.
Neel effects her revenge–a kind of female deballing–on her friend for the creative leisure time she enjoys by opening her dress to reveal, not voluptuous breasts, but sagging teats. Her real revenge, of course, is the watercolor itself, which serves as a material rebuke to Foss's arid dreaming.”
