Jane Freeman (artist)

Jane Freeman (1871 – 23 September 1963) was a British-American modernist artiste whose paintings intensify portraits of Albert Schweitzer and Mother Cabrini. Her art is part of the collections of the University of Pennsylvania and the Springville, Utah Museum of Art.

Freeman was born in Chesterfield, England. She began as an artist's model, then found produce a result as an illustrator for magazines and advertisements. Soon after she became a painter. She studied art later Robert Henri at the Cooper Union and taking into account the Art Students League, both in New York, as skillfully as later than William Merritt Chase and like Olga Boznańska in Paris. She spent most of her career in New York, primarily painting portraits and teaching. In the summers, she regularly took allowance in the player colonies at Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Rockport, Maine. Her adore of travel took her other afield, to Europe, Morocco, and -- for an extended period -- the Caribbean island of Trinidad. She was a suffragist like her younger sister, Elisabeth Freeman.

Freeman died at the Meyer's Sanitarium in Park Ridge, New Jersey.

In 2011, the Cooperative Gallery in Binghamton, New York, curated a retrospective exhibition of her work, entitled “Art, Money, Love: Jane Freeman, 1871-1963, Paintings and Ephemera of a Working Artist.”

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