Jane Freilicher

Jane Freilicher (November 19, 1924 – December 9, 2014) was an American representational painter of urban and country scenes from her homes in degrade Manhattan and Water Mill, Long Island. She was a believer of the informal New York School introduction in the 1950s, and a muse to several of its poets and writers.

Freilicher was at the center of a milieu of important New York painters and poets, including painters Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Grace Hartigan, Fairfield Porter, Larry Rivers, and poets of the New York School including John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler. Along in the same way as Frankenthaler, Hartigan, Mitchell, and Nell Blaine, she was among solitary a handful of women artists who were exhibiting to the side of their male counterparts.

In 1996 she was awarded the Annual Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award from the Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton, New York.