Jane Freeman (artist)

Jane Freeman (1871 – 23 September 1963) was a British-American modernist artist whose paintings include portraits of Albert Schweitzer and Mother Cabrini. Her art is part of the collections of the University of Pennsylvania and the Springville, Utah Museum of Art.[1]

Biography

Freeman was born in Chesterfield, England. She began as an artist's model, then found work as an illustrator for magazines and advertisements.[2] Soon after she became a painter. She studied art with Robert Henri at the Cooper Union and with the Art Students League, both in New York, as well as with William Merritt Chase and with Olga Boznańska in Paris. She spent most of her career in New York, primarily painting portraits and teaching. In the summers, she regularly took part in the artist colonies at Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Rockport, Maine. Her love of travel took her further afield, to Europe, Morocco, and -- for an extended period -- the Caribbean island of Trinidad.[3] She was a suffragist like her older sister, Elisabeth Freeman.[4][5]

Freeman died at the Meyer's Sanitarium in Park Ridge, New Jersey.[6]

In 2011, the Cooperative Gallery in Binghamton, New York, curated a retrospective exhibition of her work, entitled “Art, Money, Love: Jane Freeman, 1871-1963, Paintings and Ephemera of a Working Artist.”[7]

References
  1. "Jane Freeman". SIRIS. Retrieved 2010-09-08.
  2. Gorman, Bill. "Freeman exhibit offers unusual gallery experience". Broom County Arts Council. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
  3. Wardle, Marian; Burns, Sarah (2005). American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945. NJ: Rutgers University Press. p. 196.
  4. Wittman, Jeanette Freeman. "Jane". elizabethfreeman.org. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  5. Paintings by American women. 1989. Jane Freeman Born: Newton, England 1871 Died: 1963
  6. "Jane Freeman Is Dead at 92; Portraitist Painted Schweitzer". New York Times. 23 September 1963. Retrieved 2010-09-08. Miss Jane Freeman, a portrait painter, formerly of New York and Rockport, Mass., died yesterday in Meyer's Sanitarium here at the age of 92. ... Most of her works are in private collections and art institutions. ...
  7. Gorman, Bill. "Freeman exhibit offers unusual gallery experience". Broom County Arts Council. Retrieved 2 December 2018.

Further reading

Wittman, Jeanette Freeman. "Jane". Retrieved 2 December 2018.

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