Alice NeelJoe Gould 1933

A Harvard graduate from an affluent old Massachusetts family, Joseph Ferdinand Gould (1889-1957) had become homeless and between the 1930s and Fifties was a familiar figure in New York's Greenwich Village, where Alice Neel lived when she painted his portrait. Gould was an eccentric bohemian whose avowed project was to write 'An Oral History of Our Time', a book which was to be around nine million words and reveal the untold stories of New York and its inhabitants… (read more)