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Jane FreilicherWW-1947-015243

1947·Charcoal on paper·24 5/16 × 18 15/16 in. (61.7 × 48.1 cm)

Gift of the artist, 1978

Catalogue

Year: 1947
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Dimensions: 24 5/16 × 18 15/16 in. (61.7 × 48.1 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Jane Freilicher

Artist

Jane Freilicher

Printmaking

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.

New York, NY and Long Island, NY, USA

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