About Lillian Orlowsky

  • Biography

    The following obituary notice, submitted August 2004, is courtesy of Jim Keefe.

    LILLIAN ORLOWSKY

    PROVINCETOWN - Lillian Orlowsky died Saturday, August 7, 2004 at home in Provincetown after a long and productive life in the arts as a painter, teacher, curator, critic and mentor in both Provincetown and New York. She was 89.

    Born in New York City, she and her late husband, artist William Freed, came to Provincetown in 1938 to study with noted artist Hans Hofmann. For the rest of their lives they spent six months in New York City and six months in the house/studio they built in 1960 in Provincetown.

    In the last week of her life, a show of her oils from the 1940s and 1950s opened at Cherry Stone Gallery i...

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