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200 / Notes9. Hubert Crehan, “Introducing the Portraits of Alice Neel,” ARTnews 61/6 (October1962), 45.10. K.L. “Alice Neel at the Graham Gallery (October 1–26),” ARTnews 62/6 (October1963), 11.11. He stated bluntly that “this series fails to give any idea of the importance of theagony of Sacco and Vanzetti.” Walter Gutman, “The Passion of Sacco-Vanzetti,”The Nation, April 29, 1932, quoted in David Shapiro, Social Realism: Art As aWeapon (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1973), 289.12. John Gruen, “Art: ‘Collector of Souls,’” Herald Tribune, January 9, 1966; Jack Kroll’s“A Curator of Souls” was published several weeks later in the January 31 issue ofNewsweek.13. John Gruen, The Party’s Over Now (New York: Viking Press, 1972), 62.14. In discussing his well-known parody of Emmanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossingthe Delaware, Rivers claimed to have painted it as a deliberately provocative gesture:“I did it the year Joe McCarthy was at his height. I even have some letterssomewhere saying that Joe McCarthy would take me as a patriot. I mean, the absurdityof history is that I might be seen as a kind of loyal, patriotic person although Itook drugs and engaged in homosexual activities. In other words, what I was sayingis that America as you know it wasn’t true.” Sam Hunter, Larry Rivers (New York:Rizzoli, 1989), 18.15. Jonathan Weinberg, Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth,Marsden Hartley and the First American Avant-Garde (New Haven: YaleUniversity Press, 1993), 205–206. See also my Ph.D. dissertation, “The WatercolorIllustrations of Charles Demuth,” Johns Hopkins University, 1970.16. Ann Sutherland Harris, Alice Neel Paintings, 1933–1982 (Los Angeles: LoyolaMarymount University, 1983), 14.17. Nancy Neel has recounted that, when Kuyer died in 1981, the family decided notto keep the portrait.18. John D’Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a HomosexualMinority in the United States, 1940–1970 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1983), 41, 42.19. Ibid., 59. This is true as well of revisionist histories, which continue their inexplicablesilence. See for instance, Michael E. Brown, et al., eds., New Studies in the Politicsand Culture of American Communism, (New York: Monthly Review Press,1993).20. Such attitudes were slow to change. In 1964, shortly after the election of LyndonJohnson, Walter Jenkins, the president’s chief of staff, was arrested for making “indecentgestures” with another man in the men’s room of a YMCA two blocks fromthe White House. Jenkins was dismissed from his government post, but an extensiveFBI investigation nonetheless ensued in order to assure that his actions had inno way compromised the security of the United States. For a brilliant account ofthe scandal, see Lee Edelman, “Tearooms and Sympathy: The Epistemology of theWater Closet,” in Henry Abelove, Midnele Aina Barale, David M. Halperin, eds.,The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (London and New York: Routledge, 1993),553–75. With the spirit of McCarthyism still at large in the U.S. government, Neel’s