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ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThis project began while I was teaching at Tufts University, and for their helpwith organizing the exhibition Exterior/Interior: Alice Neel, I thank my colleaguesthere: Erika Ketelhohn, then acting curator at the Tufts University ArtGallery, Elizabeth Wylie, the gallery director, Chris Cavalier, Fine Arts Departmentphotographer, and my graduate research assistants Nancy Chute,Renata Hedjuk, and Catherine Mayes. I also thank Prof. Margaret HendersonFloyd for her continuing support of my research.At Brandeis University, I received the Mazer Grant for Faculty Researchand the Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship for a semester’s leaveto complete the manuscript. Among my colleagues at Brandeis, Nancy Scottin the Fine Arts Department and Erika Harth in the Romance Languages Departmenthave provided helpful critiques of my arguments. Kathryn Hamill, agraduate student at Massachusetts College of Art, helped to compile sitters’ biographies.My student Sarah Shatz has been an invaluable help in all phases ofthe manuscript preparation.The research for this book was completed under a senior postdoctoral fellowshipat the Research and Scholars Center of the National Museum of AmericanArt, Smithsonian Institution, where I received valued imput from curaxv