A novel about Alice Neel, ground-breaking American painter who revolutionized the art of the portrait in the 20^th century. In this vividly-rendered novel, Melanie Dugan follows Neel’s unconventional path from her birth in 1900 through World War I, the 1918 flu pandemic, women winning the right to vote, the Depression, World War II, the McCarthy Era, the Civil Rights Movement, and second-wave feminism.