Jane Freilicher was an American representational painter of urban and country scenes from her homes in lower Manhattan and Water Mill, Long Island.
13 Facts About Jane Freilicher
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Jane Freilicher was a member of the informal New York School beginning in the 1950s, and a muse to several of its poets and writers.
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Jane Freilicher Niederhoffer was born in Brooklyn on November 19,1924.
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Jane Freilicher's parents were linguist Martin and musician Bertha Niederhoffer.
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Jane Freilicher met Larry Rivers through Jack Freilicher and Hans Hofmann and in the 1950s Rivers and Freilicher were good friends.
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Jane Freilicher lived and worked on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and the couple had a summer house which they built on Mecox Bay in Water Mill on Long Island, New York.
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Jane Freilicher died in Manhattan at the age of 90 on December 9,2014.
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Jane Freilicher is survived by her daughter, painter Elizabeth Hazan, and three grandchildren, Lucian, Katherine, and Benjamin Hicks.
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Jane Freilicher studied art under Hans Hofmann and in 1947 earned her bachelor's degree at Brooklyn College.
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Jane Freilicher received her master's degree in 1948 from Columbia University's Teacher's College, where the art historian Meyer Schapiro was one of her teachers.
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Jane Freilicher particularly made "urban pastoral" scenes of lower Manhattan and Water Mill scenes which appear to be taken as she looks out her windows on lower Fifth Avenue and Twelfth Street.
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Jane Freilicher was featured in Mounting Tension, a 1950 film by Rudy Burckhardt in which John Ashbery and Larry Rivers fight for her affections.
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Jane Freilicher's papers, including poetry and photographs, of her relationship with New York School writers and artists are now owned by the Houghton Library of Harvard University.