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Jane Freilicher (November 29, 1924) is an American still life and landscape painter. Active in and around the Greater New York City area for over half a century, she was closely involved with many of the New York School poets such as: Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, and James Schuyler.

Early life
Jane Freilicher was born Jane Niederhoffer in Flatbush, Brooklyn on November 29, 1924. Her father Martin Niederhoffer was a real estate broker and her mother, Birdie, was a housewife and self-taught pianist. During the Depression, the family moved to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, where they lived for many years.

Middle life and education
Jane Freilicher’s first husband was Jack Freilicher, who was a Jazz musician. Through him, Jane met the artist Larry Rivers, who was then playing the saxophone in the same band, and the landscape painter Nell Blaine. In 1947, through Blaine’s recommendation, Jane began studies at the Hans Hoffman School with Rivers and other artists including: Paul Georges, Robert Goodnough, Wolf Kahn, Paul Resika and Richard Stankiewicz.



Style and Technique
Heavily influenced by New York School abstract expressionism, Freilicher borrowed the speedy brushwork, bold colors and immediacy characteristic of that movement, but maintained an interest in still lives and landscapes. She was strongly influenced by the 1948 posthumous exhibition of Pierre Bonnard at the Museum of Modern Art. Bonnard's work, as well as that of Edouard Vuillard, had a deep and resonating impact on Freilicher’s early early work.

The New York School
Jane Freilicher was among a group of artists, along with Fairfield Porter and Larry Rivers, who were associated with the New York School of poetry. Notable poets from this school included Freilicher's friends John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, and Frank O'Hara, who, due to his role as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, became a point of connection between the poets and the painters.

Collections
Jane Freilicher’s work is represented in many national and international collections. Notable institutions included; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; The American Embassy, Istanbul, Turkey; Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.

Links
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/nyregion/jane-freilicher-a-painter-amid-friends.html?_r=0

http://margaretmontgomeryartwork.blogspot.com/2013/05/tibor-de-nagy-gallerys-jane-freilicher.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2011/05/freilicher.html