Jane Freilicher pursued a distinctive painterly realism for over sixty years. Featuring readings and tributes by Freilicher’s contemporaries and fellow contributors to The Paris Review, as well as a rare screening of the short archival film Presenting Jane, this event explores her enduring influence on the worlds of art and literature, particularly to the New York School poets and their heirs.
Freilicher was a longtime member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design. Her many honors included the National Academy of Design Saltus Gold Medal, the Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award from the Guild Hall Museum, and the Gold Medal in Painting from the Academy of Arts and Letters, its highest honor. Freilicher’s work is held in numerous private and public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Kasmin has represented the Estate of Jane Freilicher since 2017. Freilicher contributed to both The Paris Review and the Paris Review Print Series in the sixties. Her influence is also noted in the current issue of the Review, in a newly unearthed conversation between James Schuyler and Peter Schjeldahl about the New York School scene.
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The Paris Review
The Paris Review is an independent, nonprofit quarterly magazine of literature and art. Founded in Paris in 1953 and published in New York since 1973, the Review has published bold, risk-taking new work by both writers and artists of diverse backgrounds, aesthetics, and prominence for over seven decades. In 1965, the Review also launched a series of prints by major contemporary artists. Relaunched in 2022, the Paris Review Print Series has grown to include the work of more than sixty artists and has garnered consistent critical acclaim.
Kasmin
Kasmin is based in New York and represents over 40 international artists and estates, revealing throughlines across generations and disciplines. The gallery has long championed artists with an independent vision, building a unique roster with a significant representation of historically important painters, multidisciplinary and self-taught artists, monumental sculptors, and practices that traverse or defy traditional categories in art making. Kasmin participates in leading international art fairs worldwide and our artists regularly exhibit at premier museums and institutions. The gallery encourages critical discourse through its publishing programs, Kasmin Books and The Kasmin Review.
