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Jun222020

Jane Freilicher: A Quiet Realism

DateMonday, June 22, 2020 at 8:00AM

Jane Freilicher - Early New York Evening- 1954 - Oil on linen - 51 11/16 × 31 7/8in. (131.3 × 81 cm) - Whitney Museum of American Art, NYAmerican Realist Jane Freilicher (1924-2014) was a representational painter of both urban and country scenes. Her inspiration came from her homes in lower Manhattan and Water Mill, Long Island. She was a close friend of many of the New York School of painters, and a muse to several of its poets and writers.

Amidst the existential gestures and transcendent color fields of Abstract Expressionism, Freilicher hewed to a quiet realism that won the admiration of her friends, and to painters and poets alike.

Art critic Peter Schjeldahl once noted, "She values color and tone, over line and shape, as primary sensations of the eye," and thus avoids being overly cerebral.

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