The Alliance of Figurative Artists was an artist-run discussion group frequented by a majority of the figurative and realist painters and sculptors in New York City in the 1970s, including artists such as Alice Neel, Philip Pearlstein, Rackstraw Downes, Paul Georges,[1] Lois Dodd, Gabriel Laderman, Richard Miller, Rosemarie Beck, Larry Faden, Sam Thurston, and Howard Kalish.
The first three meetings were held in artists' lofts and studios and thereafter at the Educational Alliance, 197 East Broadway, NYC.
Although open to all without membership, it was intended as a forum for figurative and realistic painters and sculptors who felt isolated in an art world dominated by abstract and pop styles.
All they wanted to do was to have panels and guest speakers, and just talk about the problems of figurative art representation, and the battles became terrific.
Phoebe Hoban, Alice Neel, The Art Of Not Sitting Pretty p. 278 This New York City–related article is a stub.