Freilicher, Jane, 1924-2014

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Jane Freilicher

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Freilicher, Jane (American painter, printmaker, born 1924)

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Freilicher, Jane (American painter, printmaker, born 1924)

née Niederhoffer, Jane

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1924-11-29

1924 November 29

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Jane Freilicher was an American painter. Born in 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, she attended Brooklyn College and then studied with artist Hans Hofmann. She left the Hofmann studio in 1948 to paint in New York City, collaborating with a group of artist and writer friends known collectively as the New York School and including John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, Larry Rivers, and James Schuyler. She married jazz pianist Jack Freilicher when she was 17; the marriage was annulled five years later, and in 1957 she married former dancer Joe Hazan, with whom she had one daughter, Elizabeth, in 1965. The couple built a house in Water Mill, N.Y. Freilicher began to show her work at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York in 1952, also exhibiting at the Fischbach Gallery in New York.

From the description of Jane Freilicher papers, 1945-1995 (MS Am 2072)(Harvard University).

Jane Freilicher, b. 1924, Painter of New York, N.Y.

From the description of Oral history interview with Jane Freilicher, 1987 Aug. 4-5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646395869

Painter (New York, N.Y.).

Painter and printmaker; New York, N.Y.

From the description of Jane Freilicher papers, 1952-1996. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122394254

Born Jane Niederhoffer in Brooklyn, New York in 1924, Jane Freilicher attended Brooklyn College and subsequently studied in the studio of artist Hans Hofmann; there she met the painter Larry Rivers. Leaving the Hoffman studio in 1948, she painted on her own in New York in the 1950s with the friendship and support of the group of New York School artists and writers that included John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. She began to exhibit her work at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York in 1952, meeting the painter Fairfield Porter there.

She married jazz pianist Jack Freilicher when she was 17; the marriage was annulled five years later. In 1952 she met the former dancer Joe Hazan whom she married in 1957. They had one daughter in 1965, Elizabeth Hazan, who also became a painter. Freilicher and her husband built a house in Water Mill (N.Y.).

From the guide to the Jane Freilicher papers, 1945-1995 (MS Am 2072). Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Jane Freilicher died 9 December 2014 in Manhattan.

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