About Jane Niederhoffer Freilicher

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    Following is The New York Times obituary of the artist.

    Jane Freilicher, 90, a Lyrical Painter of Long Island Landscapes, Is Dead
    By William Grimes, December 10, 2014

    Jane Freilicher, a stubbornly independent 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, died on Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 90.

    Eric Brown, co-owner of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in Manhattan, which represented her, confirmed her death.

    Although Ms. Freilicher (pronounced FRY-licker) studied with Hans Hofmann, the influential teacher and theorist of ab...

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