Oral history interview with Jane Freilicher
name: label: Interviewee
content: Freilicher, Jane, 1924-2014
label: Interviewer
content: Shikler, Barbara
label: Names
content: Ashbery, John, 1927-
label: Names
content: Hofmann, Hans, 1880-1966
label: Names
content: Koch, Kenneth, 1925-
label: Names
content: Porter, Fairfield
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women printmakers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Freilicher, Jane, 1924-2014
label: Interviewer
content: Shikler, Barbara
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Jane Freilicher (1924-2014) was a painter from New York City.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Sound cassettes (Sound recording)
label: Extent
content: 72 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1987 Aug. 4-5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.freili87
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound cassettes
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Jane Freilicher conducted 1987 Aug. 4-5, by Barbara Shikler, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Freilicher speaks of her family background; her education at Brooklyn College and Columbia University; her friendships with New York School Poets Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and John Ashbery; studying with Hans Hofmann; making avant-garde movies; inspirations for her work; subject matter; materials; process; criticism;  her illustration work; set design; working in Provincetown, Masschusetts and East Hampton, New York; her associations with galleries, including Tibor de Nagy and Fischbach. She also recalls Serge Chermayeff, Larry Rivers, Fairfield Porter, Nell Blaine, Rudy Burckhardt, Meyer Schapiro, John Larouche, Alex Katz, and John Myers.