{"id":25636,"date":"2014-12-14T09:10:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T16:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=25636"},"modified":"2014-12-14T09:10:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T16:10:33","slug":"r-i-p-jane-freilicher-portraits-of-frank-ohara-koch-ashbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2014\/12\/14\/r-i-p-jane-freilicher-portraits-of-frank-ohara-koch-ashbery\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P Jane Freilicher – Portraits of Frank O’Hara, Koch & Ashbery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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    Jane Freilicher (in film star pose) Water Mill, NY, 1958
    \nBy John Jonas Gruen <\/p>\n

    R.I.P Jane Freilichner <\/a> an outsider in era of Abstract Expressionism dies at 90.<\/p>\n

    The prevailing critical current, for most of her career, devalued the landscape and still-life genres. In landscape, what Mr. Ashbery called her \u201csweetness of tone\u201d drew unfavorable comparisons with Mr. Porter\u2019s moodier treatment of similar scenes.<\/p>\n

    \u201cMy work was deviant enough to explain why I was not rising through the ranks,\u201d she told The New York Times in 1998. \u201cBut I liked not having the demands made on me a big career would have made. It allowed me a certain freedom to fool around.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    art news obit <\/a>In 1958, the poet James Schuyler termed her \u201ca poet\u2019s painter who may yet become the public\u2019s painter\u201d\u2014an apt description for her entire career.<\/p>\n

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    Jane with Ruth Kligman and DeKooning. <\/p>\n

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    Frank O’Hara <\/a>\"1aJanetFrank_OHara_in_Landscape_c_19670\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    Ashbery and O\u2019Hara regularly sought her advice for poems in process. Urbane, affectionate, and gossipy, the letters put the artist\u2019s legendary wit on display.
    \nO\u2019Hara wrote his celebrated series of \u201cJane poems,\u201d weaving her name into the titles.(    via<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    See more paintings by Jane here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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    See Jane with Hartigan and Larry Rivers <\/a><\/p>\n

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    John Ashbery \"1_Ashbery_c_19680Janet\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    The poet John Ashbery, with whom she shared a six-decade friendship, wrote, \u201cHer pictures always have an air of just coming into being, of tentativeness that is the lifeblood of art.\u201d The two met when Ashbery, fresh out of college, came to stay at the poet Kenneth Koch\u2019s apartment at East 16th Street and Third Avenue, and Freilicher, who lived one floor above, provided the key to let him in. – <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Kenneth Koch \"1aJanetKenneth_Koch_c_19660\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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    Jane and her friends <\/a><\/p>\n

    The depth of Koch’s friendship with Freilicher is equally evident. There’s a typed manuscript page for his script for The Automotive Story, a 1954 short film directed by Rudy Buckhardt featuring Jane Frelicher; likewise the painter’s portraits of Koch are reproduced, as is Freilicher’s painting The Car, alongside the painter and poet’s jokey collaborative text “A Car” (“Dashboard: I am my setting sun, a dashboard. \/ Clutch: I clutch. We like each other.”).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Jane Freilicher (in film star pose) Water Mill, NY, 1958 By John Jonas Gruen R.I.P Jane Freilichner an outsider in era of Abstract Expressionism dies at 90. The prevailing critical current, for most of her career, devalued the landscape and still-life genres. In landscape, what Mr. Ashbery called her \u201csweetness of tone\u201d drew unfavorable comparisons … <\/p>\n

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