Jane Freilicher

Untitled, ca. 1985
Ink and pencil on paper
17 x 14 inches (43.18 x 35.56 cm)

Courtesy of the Jane Freilicher Estate, Olney Gleason

Selected by The Drawing Center

Throughout her career, Jane Freilicher painted landscapes, urban skylines, portraits, and domestic scenes with great affection for her subjects—though, by her own admission, she did not consciously distinguish between genres. “A combination of forms and color in nature will somehow ignite a kind of energy providing the occasion for a painting,” she once explained. In this drawing, one can clearly see Freilicher’s mastery in genres of landscapes brought to life by the sensitivity and spontaneity that characterizes her work.

Jane 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. Her paintings were selected for inclusion in the 1995 Whitney Biennial. Recent acquisitions have been made by institutions including the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Sheldon Art Museum, University of Nebraska–Lincoln; the Brandywine Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; the Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts; and the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan.