Jane Freilicher : '50s New York | Smithsonian Institution

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Catalog of an exhibition held at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, April 19-June 9, 2018.; Includes essay by Nathan Kernan, interview by John Ashbery with the artist and text of lecture given by the artist.; AAPGMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
Summary: Jane Freilicher (1924?2014) established herself in the 1950s among a generation of New York painters including Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz, Joan Mitchell and Larry Rivers. '?50s New York' is the first book to focus on Freilicher?s paintings of that decade -- a body of work that Fairfield Porter perceptively 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.0The book includes an essay by writer Nathan Kernan; a 1958 conversation between Jane Freilicher and John Ashbery; rare archival material from across the artist?s life; and a full chronology.00Exhibition: Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA (19.03.-09.06.2018).

2018

Physical description: 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm

Title: Jane Freilicher, fifties New York; '50s New York; Fifties New York; 1950s New York

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