About the Artist
Jane Freilicher
Jane Freilicher (1924–2014) was an influential American painter known for her lyrical landscapes, still lifes, and interior scenes. Associated with the New York School, she maintained close ties with leading poets and painters of her time, including Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, and Willem de Kooning. Freilicher’s work balanced figurative tradition with modernist sensibilities, often depicting views from her Manhattan and Long Island studios in soft, atmospheric tones. Her paintings are celebrated for their quiet intimacy, painterly elegance, and subtle interplay between observation and abstraction.
