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Identical TwinsAlice Neel’s muse, and the painting she inspired

In 1975 Alice Neel painted two little sisters in red dresses. In 2016 a Washington painter answered her. This November one of those sisters hangs his painting in her museum.

From November 5, 2026, Matt Sesow’s Identical Twins (2016) — a gift of the artist to the permanent collection of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore — is on view at the New Bedford Art Museum in a survey of self-taught art built on loans from AVAM. The museum’s executive director, Suzanne de Vegh, is one of the two girls in The De Vegh Twins, the 1975 Alice Neel portrait that inspired it; the Neel sold at Christie’s in 2023 for $2.5 million. She found Sesow’s painting in AVAM’s catalogue in July 2026, wrote to him, and asked to borrow it. On October 10 she sat with him in his Washington studio.

Alice Neel, The De Vegh Twins, 1975, oil on canvas
Alice Neel, The De Vegh Twins, 1975© The Estate of Alice Neel. Reproduced small, for comparison and commentary.
Matt Sesow, Identical Twins, 2016, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 24 in, American Visionary Art Museum, gift of the artist
Matt Sesow, Identical Twins, 2016AVAM, gift of the artist
Opens
Nov 5
2026 · New Bedford, MA
Alice Neel
1975
The De Vegh Twins
Matt Sesow
2016
Identical Twins · 36×24 in
Collection
AVAM
gift of the artist, 2017
The Neel
$2.5M
Christie’s, May 2023
The muse
Oct 10
2026 · in his studio

The story

Two pairs of twins, fifty-one years

  1. Alice Neel paints The De Vegh Twins. Oil on canvas, 38 × 32 inches: the identical twin daughters of the art restorer Geza de Vegh, in matching red dresses, ruffled blouses and white tights, on a chair in front of dark plum-purple furniture. The wall label Matt later photographed reads it as two personalities in one pose — one sister leaning in with affection, the other perched on the edge of the chair. The label, full text ↓
  2. The same summer. Eight-year-old Matt Sesow is struck by the propeller of a landing airplane during an evening game of SPUD on a grass runway near home. His dominant left hand cannot be saved. Timeline entry · his own account ↓
  3. He begins to paint, at 28, self-taught, while working at IBM. The nightmares about the accident stop. Timeline entry
  4. Identical Twins. Sesow sees Neel’s work in Washington — “Saw her work at Portrait gallery in DC near Dana’s studio,” he wrote in 2016 — and paints his answer: 36 × 24 inches, oil and acrylic on stretched canvas, signed “SESOW 16.” He paints himself as the twin on the right.
  5. The exhibition plan. Identical Twins is on wall plan page 4 of the 21-page document Sesow prepares for AVAM’s “Shock and Awe,” hung with The Gourmet (after Picasso) and Nuclear Family; page 5 reproduces the Neel beside the line above. Both pages, full text ↓
  6. “Matt Sesow: Shock and Awe” — his year-long solo at the American Visionary Art Museum, 150-plus works. Identical Twins is printed as a postcard for the museum shop. Timeline entry
  7. Into the permanent collection. Sesow fills out AVAM’s provenance form for the paintings he gives the museum — one page per work. Page 8 is Identical Twins: “Inspired by the Alice Neel painting ‘The De Vegh Twins’, 1975.” It is catalogued as a gift of the artist. The form, full text ↓ · Timeline entry
  8. The Neel sells. Offered in the single-owner sale of the Boston developer Gerald Fineberg’s collection, The De Vegh Twins brings $2.1 million at the hammer, $2.5 million with fees, over a high estimate of $1.8 million — at the time one of the highest prices ever paid for a Neel at auction. More ↓
  9. On the blue wall. Identical Twins hangs at AVAM under the label “Gift of the artist,” with a small card of the Neel beside it. Photograph ↓
  10. “Got chills.” Suzanne de Vegh — executive director of the New Bedford Art Museum since 2022, and one of the two girls in Neel’s painting — is planning a survey of self-taught art built on loans from AVAM. In AVAM’s catalogue she finds two girls in red dresses on a chair, and writes to Sesow: was it inspired by the Neel? May the museum borrow it? The letters ↓
  11. Sesow answers. Yes, the Neel was the inspiration — and the twin on the right is him. “Please count me in as attending any opening event.”
  12. The muse visits. Suzanne de Vegh meets Matt Sesow and Dana Ellyn at their studio downtown. Photograph ↓
  13. Matt tells his collectors: “November 5th, see you all in New Bedford, MA at the New Bedford Art Museum!” The post ↓
  14. Opening. Identical Twins goes on view at the New Bedford Art Museum, 608 Pleasant Street. Matt Sesow and Dana Ellyn plan to be there.

Side by side

Two paintings, forty-one years apart

Alice Neel, The De Vegh Twins, 1975
Alice Neel (1900–1984), The De Vegh Twins, 1975. Oil on canvas, 38 × 32 in. Sold at Christie’s New York, May 17, 2023.© The Estate of Alice Neel. Reproduced small, for comparison and commentary.
Matt Sesow, Identical Twins, 2016
Matt Sesow (b. 1966), Identical Twins, 2016. Oil and acrylic on stretched canvas, 36 × 24 in. American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, gift of the artist. On view at the New Bedford Art Museum from November 5, 2026.Painting © Matt Sesow

Neel painted everything the twins share — the bangs, the red dresses, the ruffled collars, the shared chair, the arm around a shoulder — and found the difference in how each girl holds herself. The museum label for her painting says the faces and body language “betray different personalities.”

Sesow kept the pose and the red. The ruffles became yellow collars with polka dots; the white sleeves became pink-and-blue stripes; the plum furniture dropped away to a flat blue wall. Then he made the difference physical. Writing to Suzanne de Vegh in July 2026, he said he had “personalized my version by depicting twins that had a different physical (emotional/trauma) path… I portrayed mine/me as the twin on the right.”

The red circle

Around the right twin’s eye. In Sesow’s own key to his icons, the red circle is there “to draw the viewer around the unique characteristics of one of the figures in the painting. what makes the circled object unique.”

The trauma cup

Drawn on the hem of the right twin’s dress. “A trauma cup is a place to put, keep, hold, and ‘produce’ the emotion… the trauma cup has been a key to my healing.”

The bunny

The small dark long-eared figure held between them. “The Bunny is a character i attribute to being a bit of ‘self portrait’ icon… the little boy on the grassy runway, happily scurrying around… then, out of nowhere, being struck.”

Lips and teeth

Neel’s “pouty, pink lips” become Sesow’s red mouths and long rows of teeth: “i want the viewer to see or guess if there is a smile, a frown, a grimace, yelling, screaming, reaction. emotion.”

The icon quotations are from Sesow’s “Matt Sesow Icons” key, shown at AVAM in “Shock and Awe” (2016–17) and now in the museum’s permanent collection. Reading the icons in Identical Twins is this chronicle’s, from that key; the twin on the right is Sesow’s own account.

The muse

Suzanne de Vegh

Suzanne de Vegh has been executive director of the New Bedford Art Museum since 2022. The museum, founded in 1996, sits in a building on the National Register at 608 Pleasant Street; after a renovation that doubled its galleries, she moved it to shorter, more frequent exhibitions — from the agricultural biennial agriCultural to Arctic Voices, which hung William Bradford’s paintings with work by Indigenous artists.

She is also one of the two girls in red. Alice Neel painted Suzanne and her identical twin sister in 1975 for The De Vegh Twins; their father, Geza de Vegh, was an art restorer. Matt calls her “the ORIGINAL MUSE” — and “my muse Suzanne.”

For the November survey she is borrowing about twenty-five works from the American Visionary Art Museum. Sesow’s painting of her and her sister, as he imagined them, is one of them.

Alice Neel, The De Vegh Twins, 1975
Suzanne de Vegh and her twin sister as Alice Neel painted them in 1975.© The Estate of Alice Neel. Reproduced small, for comparison and commentary.

The letters

“Got chills”

Suzanne de Vegh, executive director, New Bedford Art Museum → Matt Sesow · Friday, July 3, 2026, 6:06 PM

Planning a survey of self-taught art for November with loans from the American Visionary Art Museum, she was going through AVAM’s catalogue when she came to Identical Twins — and “got chills.” She wrote to Sesow to ask whether Alice Neel’s portrait of her and her sister had inspired it, asked to include it in the New Bedford survey, and offered to visit his studio.

Summarized from the email as Matt shared it on October 13, 2026; the quoted words are hers. The full letter will be added here in her words.

Matt Sesow → Suzanne de Vegh · reply, July 2026

Yes: Neel’s The De Vegh Twins inspired the painting. He told her he had “personalized my version by depicting twins that had a different physical (emotional/trauma) path… I portrayed mine/me as the twin on the right.”

He told her the story behind that difference — the airplane propeller in 1975, when he was eight; growing up between an older brother and a younger sister; the paintings in AVAM’s collection that deal with childhood trauma and healing; starting to paint at 28 while he worked at IBM; and the weekends in the Smithsonian museums after he came to Washington. He sent her to his studio page, studio.sesow.com, and signed off: “Please count me in as attending any opening event.”

Matt’s reply, quoted in part and summarized; contact details left out.

October 10, 2026

The muse in the studio

Suzanne de Vegh and Matt Sesow in the studio, October 10, 2026
Suzanne de Vegh and Matt Sesow at the studio, 916 G Street NW, Washington, DC, Saturday, October 10, 2026, 12:29 PM. Behind them: works in progress on the studio wall.

Three months after her first email, Suzanne de Vegh came to the studio Matt Sesow shares with Dana Ellyn at Mather Studios in downtown Washington — a few blocks from where Sesow first stood in front of Neel’s work.

In the photograph he holds a signed 11 × 17 print of Identical Twins, the edition he has sold through prints.sesow.com; she stands beside him, fifty-one years after she sat for Alice Neel.

Matt Sesow · Facebook (facebook.com/sesow) · October 13, 2026 · pinned post

November 5th, see you all in New Bedford, MA at the New Bedford Art Museum! Dana Ellyn and I had an amazing visit with the ORIGINAL MUSE of the Alice Neel paining "The De Vegh Twins" that recently sold for $2.5 mil Here i am with one of the twins and my muse Suzanne. :) and the original Alice Neel painting that inspired me when it was in Washington, DC.

by the way, my original painting "identical twins" will be on display at New Bedford Art Museum starting november 5th and it is part of the permanent collection at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. ONWARD!! Matt Sesow.

Text as Matt wrote it. The post carried the studio photograph and the Neel painting.

The exhibition

New Bedford, November 5, 2026

Museum
New Bedford Art Museum (founded 1996)
Address
608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, Massachusetts 02740
Opens
Thursday, November 5, 2026
Exhibition
A survey of self-taught art, with about 25 works lent by the American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore
Sesow’s work
Identical Twins, 2016, oil and acrylic on canvas, 36 × 24 in — AVAM, gift of the artist
Executive director
Suzanne de Vegh
Attending
Matt Sesow and Dana Ellyn plan to be at the opening
Details
newbedfordart.org — the museum had not yet posted the exhibition title or reception hours when this page was written

The American Visionary Art Museum — designated by Congress as America’s national museum for self-taught, visionary art — gave Sesow a year-long solo in 2016–17 and kept 26 of the paintings he lent it. Identical Twins is the one going to New Bedford, carried there by the woman it pictures.

The source

Alice Neel’s The De Vegh Twins

Alice Neel (born Merion Square, Pennsylvania, 1900; died New York City, 1984) painted the people around her for more than fifty years and was largely ignored by the art world until late in life. Her reputation, and her prices, have climbed ever since — most visibly with the 2021 retrospective Alice Neel: People Come First at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The De Vegh Twins (1975, oil on canvas, 38 × 32 inches) is one of her double portraits — the label in Washington called them proof of “her ability to record physical and psychological individuality.” In his 2016 plan for AVAM, Sesow pointed to the Guardian’s picture gallery of the Whitechapel Gallery’s 2010 retrospective Alice Neel: Painted Truths for a large reproduction of it, and to the Telegraph’s review of that show.

$2.5 million

On May 17, 2023, at Christie’s New York, The De Vegh Twins was offered in “A Century of Art,” the single-owner sale of the late Boston developer Gerald Fineberg. It drew quick bidding in the room and on the phones and sold for $2.1 million at the hammer — $2.5 million with fees (ARTnews put it at nearly $2.6 million) — against an estimate of $1.2–1.8 million. The Art Newspaper singled it out in an otherwise soft sale; MyArtBroker lists it second among Neel’s auction records.

Matt’s Facebook post put it simply: the painting “that recently sold for $2.5 mil.” The figure checks out.

Museum wall label for Alice Neel, The De Vegh Twins, 1975
The wall label for The De Vegh Twins, photographed by Matt Sesow in Washington — the photograph he kept as his source for Identical Twins. Full text ↓

American Visionary Art Museum

Ten years at AVAM

Identical Twins has belonged to Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum — America’s national museum for self-taught, visionary art — since 2017. It was painted for “Matt Sesow: Shock and Awe” (May 27, 2016 – June 4, 2017), his year-long solo there, and was one of the 26 paintings the museum kept for its permanent collection when the show closed.

The museum shop sold it as a postcard during the show, and Sesow sold signed 11 × 17 prints of it himself. On October 13, 2024, it was on AVAM’s blue wall under a label reading “Gift of the artist” — with a small card of the Neel tucked beside it, the source and the answer on one wall.

In November it travels. avam.sesow.com · Shock and Awe on the timeline · On permanent display, 2017

AVAM wall label for Matt Sesow, Identical Twins, 2016, gift of the artist, with a card of the Alice Neel painting
AVAM, Baltimore, October 13, 2024: the museum’s label for Identical Twins — “Matt Sesow · Identical Twins · 2016 · Oil and acrylic on canvas · Gift of the artist” — with a card of the Neel beside it.Photograph, October 13, 2024

Documents & full text

The paper trail

Every document behind this page, as page images you can zoom and as full text you can search.

Exhibition plan · February 21, 2016

“Matt Sesow: Shock and Awe” — pages 4 and 5 of 21

Matt Sesow’s plan for his AVAM solo, prepared in Pages and sent to the museum; PDF dated February 21, 2016 (SESOW_AVAM shockandawe.pdf)

The earliest record of Identical Twins: already finished and “ready to hang” by February 2016, with the Neel and Sesow’s note on where he saw it. A lender’s private phone numbers and email are blacked out.

Page 4 of 21 — the wall with Identical Twins
Page 4 of 21 — the wall with Identical Twins
Page 5 of 21 — the sources: Wilson, Neel, Picasso, Renoir
Page 5 of 21 — the sources: Wilson, Neel, Picasso, Renoir

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PAGE 4
Matt Sesow: Shock and Awe · Page 4 of 21
[Images: the five “Nuclear Family” panels; “The Gourmet”; “Identical Twins”; “The Boating Party”]
The Four sets of paintings on this wall are described in more detail on the next page (page 5) of this document.

1. “Nuclear Family” (loaned by Matt Sesow, in 5 frames, each is 11”x 14” mix on archival paper, 2016)
Series depicts a family of 5 (like my own, with cat, dog, and bunny) at the moment of the nuclear blast and then thru the 5 paintings, pushing forward towards the viewer, eventually reduced to ash. larger image here: http://www.sesow.com/paintings/dec2k15/nuclearfamily.jpg

2. “The Gourmet” , 22” x 28” oil on stretched canvas, 2015 (loaned by Matt Sesow, ready to hang)
3. “Identical Twins” , 36” x 24” acrylic/oil on stretched canvas, 2016 (loaned by Matt Sesow, ready to hang)
4. “The Boating Party”, 30” x 40” oil on canvas 2015 loaned by G Bradley Bennett, [contact details removed]

PAGE 5
Matt Sesow: Shock and Awe · Page 5 of 21
[Image: Dagmar Wilson illustration] This is the illustration by Dagmar Wilson that inspired my 5 painting series “Nuclear Family”, from the previous page of this document. More on Dagmar Wilson: Dagmar Searchinger Wilson (January 25, 1916 – January 6, 2011) was an American anti-nuclear testing activist, artist, and illustrator of children's books for Whitman's Children's Books. Born in Manhattan, New York City, Wilson founded Women Strike for Peace in 1961 to end the testing of nuclear weapons.
Image is from “The Thinking Book by Adelaide Hall, pictures by Dagmar Wilson, 1963 (1970 ed.)”
larger image is here: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/321937073333839418/

[Image: Alice Neel, The De Vegh Twins] Inspired by the Alice Neel painting “The De Vegh Twins”, 1975
larger image here: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2010/jul/08/alice-neel-whitechapel-gallery-art-exhibition#img-8
Saw her work at Portrait gallery in DC near Dana’s studio.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7878970/Alice-Neel-the-art-modernism-neglected.html

[Image: Picasso, Le Gourmet] My painting was inspired by Picasso’s “Le Gourmet” as seen at the National Gallery of Art here in DC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Le_Gourmet.JPG

[Image: Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luncheon_of_the_Boating_Party
the 1875 painting by Renoir
on loan from G Bradley Bennett
[contact details removed]
“Boating Party”

Museum record · July 9, 2017

“Matt Sesow paintings for AVAM” — provenance form, pages 1 and 8 of 26

Matt Sesow’s answers to the American Visionary Art Museum’s provenance questions for the paintings he gave the museum; PDF dated July 9, 2017

Page 8 is Identical Twins, in his words. Page 1, for A Simple Game of Spud, is his account of the 1975 accident — the “different physical path” of the twin on the right.

Page 8 of 26 — Identical Twins
Page 8 of 26 — Identical Twins
Page 1 of 26 — A Simple Game of Spud: “The Accident”
Page 1 of 26 — A Simple Game of Spud: “The Accident”

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PAGE 8
Matt Sesow paintings for AVAM · Page 8 of 26
Title: “Identical Twins”
Approximate Value: $3000
Previous Owners: Solely owned by Matt Sesow
History/Background on the work of art: part of the “Shock and Awe” solo exhibit of Matt Sesow paintings at the American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore 2016-17

Inspired by the Alice Neel painting “The De Vegh Twins”, 1975
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2010/jul/08/alice-neel-whitechapel-gallery-art-exhibition#img-8
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7878970/Alice-Neel-the-art-modernism-neglected.html

Has it been displayed publicly or been reproduced in print?: yes, postcards sold at the AVAM giftshop
Are you currently the sole owner of the object: yes
Is this artist still living?: yes (Matt Sesow)
Is the work signed by the artist: yes

PAGE 1
Matt Sesow paintings for AVAM · Page 1 of 26
Title: “A Simple Game of Spud”
Approximate Value: $1500
Previous Owners: Solely owned by Matt Sesow
History/Background on the work of art: created for the American Visionary Art Museum solo show of Matt Sesow “Shock and Awe”, 2016-2017.

from an artist statement in 2002:

THE ACCIDENT

The first thing I remember was the feeling of knowing I had done something monumental, maybe even miraculous. It was as if I had watched everything unfold, made a calculated decision to bring me to this moment. But it was the look on my parent’s faces, their red eyes, the forced smiles, the impending truth about to be revealed to me that was the beginning of this strange journey... I was an eight-year-old boy lying in a hospital bed in Lincoln, Nebraska, I was a boy that had just survived being hit by a landing airplane.

From my viewpoint, everything was fine, I had survived the plane’s propeller striking the arm that fed blood to my dominant left hand. I had survived being drug over 100 yards down a grassy runway in front of my playmates and siblings whom had come together that summer evening in 1974 for a friendly game of ball-tossing called ‘SPUD’. I had survived the stillness on the runway as neighbors removed my shoes and used its laces to apply a tourniquet as I bled motionless. Yes, everything seemed just as it should as I lay in that hospital bed. Although I felt a bit groggy from the six-hour operation to reattach the arm, I figured I’d soon be back out on the cool grass on warm summer evenings throwing balls and running from propellers.

But wait. I followed the eyes of my parents and noticed they were no longer looking at my face, but instead at my very sore arm draped in a white yellow-stained sheet. Soon a doctor came in and removed that sheet. It was as if I was looking at somebody else’s body when my eyes joined those of my bedside visitors. You see, the arm of mine that had so faithfully guided blood to my left hand had just suffered a bit of trauma... we had been separated, briefly, on that grassy runway. And despite the best efforts of a terrific team of doctors, some, whom had performed ‘similar procedures’ in the Vietnam War, were unable to clear and reconnect a perfect path from my heart to the left hand. My left hand was now a purple-blackish wrinkled cold appendage. I remember being able to move the fingers ever so slightly. The next thing the doctor said was something to the effect, ‘Matt we need to remove your hand’.... my response, without hesitation, was ‘yes of course, that is fine with me’. Everything was going perfectly as planned. And so my fantastic journey begins.

Has it been displayed publicly or been reproduced in print?: no
Are you currently the sole owner of the object: yes
Is this artist still living?: yes (Matt Sesow)
Is the work signed by the artist: yes

Museum wall label · Washington, DC

The De Vegh Twins, 1975 — the label Matt photographed

Photograph by Matt Sesow; also kept on his 2016 AVAM pages as the source for Identical Twins

The museum’s reading of the two girls — affection on the left, impatience on the right — is the reading Sesow turned into “a different physical (emotional/trauma) path.”

Wall label, The De Vegh Twins, 1975
Wall label, The De Vegh Twins, 1975

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Transcribed from the photograph, October 14, 2026.

The De Vegh Twins
1975
oil on canvas

Alice Neel
born Merion Square, PA 1900–
died New York City 1984

Neel’s double portraits attest to her ability to record physical and psychological individuality. The identical twin daughters of art restorer Geza de Vegh share pouty, pink lips and straight, dark hair and are clothed in matching red dresses, ruffled blouses, and white tights. Their faces and body language, however, betray different personalities. The child on the left leans against her twin in affection; her impatient sister sits on the edge of the chair, arms against her body, indifferent to her sister’s warmth.

Museum wall label · AVAM · October 13, 2024

Identical Twins at the American Visionary Art Museum

Photograph taken at AVAM, Baltimore, Sunday, October 13, 2024, 2:26 PM

AVAM label for Identical Twins, with a card of the Neel
AVAM label for Identical Twins, with a card of the Neel

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MATT SESOW
Identical Twins
2016
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Gift of the artist

[Below the label: a small card reproducing Alice Neel’s The De Vegh Twins, signed “NEEL ’75”]

For researchers

Notes and open questions

Sources

Where every fact comes from

  1. Matt Sesow, “Matt Sesow: Shock and Awe” exhibition plan for AVAM, February 21, 2016, pp. 4–5 — above.
  2. Matt Sesow, “Matt Sesow paintings for AVAM” provenance form, July 9, 2017, pp. 1 and 8 — above.
  3. Wall label for Alice Neel, The De Vegh Twins, photographed by Matt Sesow — above.
  4. AVAM wall label for Identical Twins, photographed October 13, 2024 — above.
  5. Suzanne de Vegh to Matt Sesow, email, July 3, 2026, and his reply (shared by Matt, October 13, 2026).
  6. Matt Sesow, Facebook post, October 13, 2026 — facebook.com/sesow.
  7. Photograph, Suzanne de Vegh and Matt Sesow in the studio, October 10, 2026.
  8. David Zwirner, “Alice Neel: The De Vegh Twins, 1975” (oil on canvas, 38 × 32 in) — davidzwirner.com.
  9. “Christie’s Gerald Fineberg auction falls short in New York,” The Art Newspaper, May 18, 2023 — theartnewspaper.com.
  10. “Christie’s Tepid Gerald Fineberg Sale Generates $153 M.,” ARTnews, May 2023 — artnews.com.
  11. Alice Neel auction records — MyArtBroker.
  12. “Alice Neel: Painted Truths,” Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2010 — whitechapelgallery.org.
  13. New Bedford Art Museum — newbedfordart.org; Wikipedia; Ann Trieger Kurland, “Art imitates farm life at this New Bedford exhibition,” Boston Globe, September 22, 2026 (Suzanne de Vegh as executive director).
  14. Matt Sesow, “Matt Sesow Icons,” AVAM permanent collection (2016) — the icon key quoted under “Two paintings.” avam.sesow.com.

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Citation

“Identical Twins: Matt Sesow at the New Bedford Art Museum, 2026 — after Alice Neel’s The De Vegh Twins.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, history.sesow.com. https://history.sesow.com/event-2026-new-bedford-art-museum.html (updated October 14, 2026).

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