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Freilicher, Jane (frī`lĭkər) 1924–, American painter, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Jane Niederhoffer; studied Hans Hoffmann School (1947), Brooklyn College (B.A. 1947), Columbia Univ. (M.A. 1948). Influenced by the abstract expressionism abstract expressionism, movement of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the mid-1940s and attained singular prominence in American art in the following decade; also called action painting and the New York school.
..... Click the link for more information. of her youth, she nonetheless creates intensely personal realistic paintings—Long Island landscapes, New York cityscapes, interiors, and still lifes. She has consistently rejected prevailing artistic fashion to produce subtly colored, witty, quiet, urbane, and incandescently atmospheric paintings and prints. Living and working in New York City and Water Mill, Long Island, during the 1950s and 60s, Freilicher was part of a lively group of artists that included the figurative painters Larry Rivers, Rivers, Larry, 1923–2002, American artist, b. New York City as Yitzroch Loisa Grossberg. Originally a jazz saxophonist, he turned to art in the 1940s. Reacting against abstract expressionism , Rivers turned to the figure, as in his 1954 series of nude studies,
..... Click the link for more information. Nell Blaine, and Fairfield Porter and New York School poets John Ashbery, Ashbery, John, 1927–, American poet, b. Rochester, N.Y., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1949), Columbia (M.A., 1951). Ashbery is among the most acclaimed of recent American poets.
..... Click the link for more information. Kenneth Koch, Koch, Kenneth (Kenneth Jay Koch) (kōk), 1925–2002, American poet, novelist, and playwright, b. Cincinnati.
..... Click the link for more information. and Frank O'Hara O'Hara, Frank 1926–66, American poet, b. Baltimore. O'Hara was a founder of the Poet's Theatre and later of the center of the New York School of Poets. His writings include Collected Poems (1971)
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Bibliography

See J. Ashbery et al., Jane Freilicher (1986).