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The Lute Player
1993 · Oil on canvas
36 × 36 in. (91.4 × 91.4 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Jane Freilicher
Artist
PrintmakingAbstract ExpressionismFiguration
Representation
None documented
4
Institutional Exhibitions
16
Works in Collection
23
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1
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- • Abstract Expressionism
- • Figuration
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The Stage Show
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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Landscape
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972
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Frank O'Hara/In Memory of My Feelings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967–1968
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Recent Drawings U.S.A.
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1956
About
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Jane Freilicher was an American painter known for her luminous still lifes and landscapes executed in oil and watercolor. Working primarily from her studio in New York and later the Hamptons, she developed a distinctive approach to light and color that combined observational precision with loose, gestural handling. Her work emerged in the postwar period alongside the New York School, though her commitment to figuration and domestic subject matter set her apart from her abstract contemporaries. Freilicher's paintings of flowers, fruit, and coastal views demonstrate a refined sensitivity to atmospheric effects and chromatic relationships.
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
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