Jane Freilicher “50’S New York”

Paul Kasmin Gallery

[Image: Jane Freilicher "Early New York Evening" (1954) oil on linen, 51 1/2 x 31 3/4 in. Courtesy the Estate of Jane Freilicher and Paul Kasmin Gallery.]

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Paul Kasmin Gallery presents its debut exhibition of paintings by Jane Freilicher (1924 - 2014), whose estate the gallery now represents. The presentation is the first to focus on Freilicher’s paintings from the 1950’s; a body of work that critic Fairfield Porter termed “traditional and radical.” It includes early still lifes, portraits and the studio views that elucidate her characteristically deft balance of interior and exterior. Painted within various studios in lower Manhattan, the works are evocative of a downtown milieu that has since come to represent the period’s golden age of spirited, improvisational artistic freedom. They articulate Freilicher’s enduring influence: her steadfast observation and intuitive realism are detectable within the work of a number of painters working today.