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Biography - Jane Freilicher

Born

1924 Brooklyn, New York. The artist resides in New York City and Water Mill, Long Island. She is married to Joseph Hazan and has a daughter, Elizabeth.

Education

1947 Brooklyn College (BA)
Hans Hofmann School, New York and Provincetown
1948 Columbia University (MA), New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2005 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City
2004 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City
2002 “Exhibition in conjunction with The Artist’s Eye: Jane Freilicher as Curator”, National Academy of Design, New York
1998 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
1995 Fischbach Gallery. New York
1993 Reynolds Gallery, Richnsond,VA
1990 Heath Gallery; Atlanta, GA, Fischbach Gallery, New York
1989 Kornbluth Gallery, Fairlawn, NY, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
1988 Fiscbach Gallery, New York
1986-87 Retrospective: The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,TX; Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio,TX Fiscbach Gallery , NY
1983 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, College of Mainland Art Gallery, Texas City,TX, Fiscbach Gallery, NY.
Lafayette College, Easton,
1980 Louise Himmelfarb Gallery,Water Mill, NY, Fiscbach Gallery, NY
1979 Utah Museums of Art, Salt Lake City; UT, Fiscbach Gallery, NY
1977 Fiscbach Gallery, NY
1976 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1975 Fiscbach Gallery, NY
1972- 1974 Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, John Bernard Myers Gallery, NewYork
1968 Cord Gallery, Southampton, NY
1970-52 (13 exhibitions) Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005 “Artists and Nature on Eastern Long Island: 1940s to the Present”, Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1999 “Intimate Interiors”, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT.
1998 East Hampton Artists “Seen and Scene”, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
“American Art Today: Night Painting”, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
1993 “Contemporary Realist Water Color”, Seawall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
1992 “167th Annual Exhibition” National Academy of Design, The Artists Museum, NY
“The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art” selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, touring to Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Center for Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha Nebraska; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina; Madison Art Center, Madison , Wisconsin; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
“American Realism & Figurative Art: 1952-1991” Organized by John Arthur and Japan Association of Art Museums, traveling to; The Myagi Museum Of Art, Sendai; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, The Tokushima Museum Of Art, Tokushima, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiba, Osu; Kochi Prefectural Museum of Folk Art, Kochi.
1990 “Fantasy in Fabric: The Artist as Couturier” The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk Virginia
1989 “Direct Response: The American Landscape Tradition Today” Memorial Art Gallery University of Rochester, NY, curated by Wolf Kahn
1987 1987-85 “American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors” organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, traveling to DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA; Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Akron Art Museum of Art, Akron, OH; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI.
“American Artists ‘76: A Celebration” Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
1967 “Contemporary Still Life” Museum of Modern Art, New York

Awards

1997 Artists’ Fellowship, Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial Medal
12th Annual Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award, The Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1995 Benjamin Altman Prize for Landscape, National Academy of Design, NewYork1992, The Southampton Cultural and Civic Center Award, NY
1991 The Eloise Spaeth Award for Distinguished Achievement in Painting, The Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1989 Member, The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1987 The Saltus Gold Medal, National Academy of Design, New York
1982 Member, National Academy of Design, New York
1976 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1974 American Association of University Women Fellowship

Selected Bibliography

1998 Ashbery, John, Description of a Masque, woodcuts by Jane Freilicher, Limited Editions Club.
Lehman, David, The Last Avant-garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, Doubleday, New York.
Stack, Sarah, “Art Review: As he liked it,” Taconic Newspaper, January 29.
1997 Kimmelman, Michael, “Art in Review’ The New York Times, September
Kramer, Hilton, “Tibor de Nagy Gallery Shows OIIA Lucky Man’s Collection,” The New York Observer, August 4.
Lehman, David, “The Heretic” (Fairfield Porter), The American Heritage, September.
LeSueur,Joe, “More Old Friends—Best Show in Years,” The East Hampton Star, June 26.
V/ilkin, Karen, “At the Galleries,” Partisan Review, Fall.
1996 Henry, Gerrit, “Painterly Realism and the Modern Landscape,” Art in America, September. Long, Robert, “Landscapes & Master Prints,” The Southampton Press, September 19.
Berman,Avis, “Art: Contemporary Country Landscapes,” Architectural Digest, June.
1995 1995 Biennial Exhibition Catalogue, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial, The Monacelli Press.
Helter, Nancy C. and Jules, North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, Garland Publishing, New York.
Stern, Robert A.M., Mellins , Thomas & Fishman, David, New, York 196o:Architecture and Urbanism.
Ash, ohn, “Jane Frelicher” Art Forum Summer.
“Jane Freilicher/Fischbach,” The New York Review, of Art, Summer.
1983 Strand, Mark, editor, foreword by Robert Hughes, Art of the Real: Nine American Figurative Painters, (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.).
Hoelterhoff, Manuela, “Serious Painting in a Vanishing Landscape,” The Wall Street Journal, September 27.
Campbell, Lawrence, Art in America, Summer.
1982 Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Artists, (New York: Avon Books).
Stevens, Mark, “Revival of Realism,” Newsweek, June 7.
1981 Interview with Freilicher, Directions in Contemporary Realism, catalogue for exhibition “Real, Really Real, Super Real,” San Antonio Art Museum.
Interview with Freilicher in Fairfield Porter: Catalogue Raisonne of his Prints, Holland House.
Henry, Gerrit, “New York Reviews,” ARTnews, March.
Russell, John, “Jane Freilicher,” The New York Times, November 28.
Shirey, David L., “Art,” The New York Times, September 20.
Arthur, John, Realist Drawings and Watercolors: Contemporary Works on Paper (New York: New York Graphics Society).
1979 Berlind, Robert, “Jane Freilicher,” Art in America, May/June.
Ashbery, John, “Ut Pictura Poesis,” New York Magazine, January 22.
Munroe, Eleanor, Originals—American Women Artists, (New York: Simon and Schuster).
1978 Stevens, Mark, “Realism’s New Look:’ Newsweek, March.
1977 Shorr, Harriet, “Jane Freilicher,” Arts, March.
1976 Larson, Kay, “Painting the Public Lands,” ARTnews, January.
1975 Ashbery, John, “Jane Freilicher at Fischbach:’ Art in America, May/June.
Frackman, Noel, “Jane Freilicher,” Arts, April.
David, Douglas, “The Painters’ Painters,” Newsweek, May 13.
Bourdon, David, Village Voice, February 17. Alloway, Lawrence, “Art,” The Nation, February 15
Kramer, Hilton, “Jane Freilicher is Back,” The New York Times, February 8.
Henry, Gerrit, “NewYork Letter:’ Art International, May 20.
1971 Schjeldahl, Peter, “Urban Pastorals: The Manhattan Scene,” ARTnews, February.
1966 Schuyler, James, “The Paintings of Jane Freilicher,” Art & Literature, No. 10
1964 Katz, Alex and Jane Freilicher: A Dialogue, Art & Literature, March.
1957 O’Hara, Frank, “Some New American Painters,” Folder III, Tiber Press, New York.
1956 Porter, Fairfield, “Jane Freilicher Paints a Picture,” ARTnews, September.
1954 O’Hara, Frank, “Reviews and Previews,” ARTnews, April.
1953 Porter, Fairfield, “Reviews and Previews,” ARTnews, February.
1952 Porter, Fairfield, “Reviews and Previews,” ARTnews, May.

Selected Public Collections

Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Academy of Design, New York,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York