TitleSelf-Portrait in a Mirror
Artist
Jane Freilicher
(American, 1924 - 2014)
Date1971
MediumOil on linen
DimensionsUnframed: 42 × 38 in.
Framed: 43 1/8 × 39 × 1 5/8 in.
SignedSigned at lower center: "Jane Freilicher".
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, April 6, 1981
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1981.618
Label TextPrincipally a landscape and still life painter, Jane Freilicher studied with Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann in the late 1940s. Like several other Hofmann students, Freilicher rejected abstraction in favor of a representational style and became friendly with a number of like-minded painters and poets including Leland Bell, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Robert De Niro, Sr., Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and others. The artist often combines her interest in interior and exterior scenes as in "Self-Portrait in a Mirror." Painted in the artist's studio in Water Mill, New York, the work juxtaposes Freilicher's reflection in a mirror against the expansive and lush landscape of Long Island.Collections
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