Title: Presenting Jane /
Authors: Latouche, John, 1914-1956; James Schuyler,
Year: 1953
Subjects: Freilicher, Jane,; Ashbery, John,; O'Hara, Frank,; Schuyler, James; Painting, American; Artists United States.; Women United States.; Realism in art United States.; Painting; Nude in art.; Art; Women in art.; Arts and society
Abstract: In the summer of 1952, poets John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler collaborated with filmmakers Harrison Starr and John Latouche on a short tribute to their mutual friend, the painter Jane Freilicher. A rough cut of the film, PRESENTING JANE, premiered on February 25, 1953, at the Theater de Lys in New York, accompanied by a live reading of a script by James Schuyler. The film’s soundtrack was never completed and the film disappeared until 2013, when it was rediscovered by the biographer Karin Roffman. Jane Niederhoffer was a painter whose brushy, light-saturated still lifes and luminous landscapes set in the marshes of eastern Long Island made her one of the more anomalous figures to emerge from the second generation of Abstract Expressionists in New York.