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Including artwork by Josef Albers, Lee Bontecou, Jack Bush, Friedel Dzubas, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Glenn Goldberg, Nancy Graves, Stephen Greene, Grace Hartigan, Hans Hofmann, Paul Jenkins, Alfred Leslie, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Susan Roth, Kurt Schwitters, David Smith, Theodoros Stamos, Frank Stella, Esteban Vicente, John Walker, Kit White, and Jack Youngerman.
Jules Olitski, Embraced Cream, 2005; Acrylic on canvas; 29 1/4 x 40 inches
This jewel of an exhibition features 34 mostly small works that were given by the artists who created them to friends—fellow artists, dealers, collectors, curators and critics.
Most of the entries on the checklist list the owners demurely as “private collection,” but some of the inscriptions are more revealing.
Thus we have a colored postcard with a Kenneth Noland target image, cleverly decorated with verticals on either side of the target to suggest (to my twisted mind, at least) the impression of a place setting, with fork, plate and knife.
FreedmanArt presents “Jules Olitski On An Intimate Scale… and Friends.” This exhibition opens Thursday, October 24. The more than thirty works in this exhibition present a retrospective overview of Olitski’s paintings through the artist’s distinctive periods: “Core/Stain” paintings; “Sprays”; “Baroque”; “High Baroque”; and the “Late” paintings. This exhibition demonstrates the immediacy of Olitski’s intimate and small-scale paintings.
Anthony Caro and Jules Olitski, Masters of Abstraction Draw the Figure, 2012
FreedmanArt is pleased to present Caro and Oltaki: Masters of Abstraction Draw the Figure. These drawings, many seen for the first time, convincingly express for Anthony Caro and Jules Olitski their common interest and long commitment to working directly from the model, also known as “life drawing”.
Our exhibition is a reprisal of the one in 1996, held at The New York Studio School. An expanded selection and publication is being planned for institutional venues. Prime examples of the abstract work of Olitski and Caro will offer both a context, as well as further understanding to the relationships between their figurative and abstract forces.
Hans Hofman, Pink Phantasie, 1950, Oil on panel with painting on reverse, 14 3/4 x 20 1/4 inches.
FreedmanArt is pleased to present our next exhibition "Her Passionate Eye: Works From a Family Collection" opening on Thursday, September 22, 2011.
Drawn from the private collection of the late Millicent Freedman, with additional works from the extended family, this exhibition features intimate, (both in scale and feeling), paintings, works on paper, and sculpture, by seminal artists including; Milton Avery, Richard Diebenkorn, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Hans Hofmann, and Jules Olitski.
The exhibition also brings together a personal story of one woman, whose ardent collecting was inspired by a family friendship; an endearing and enduring bond of shared values, and abiding belief in art.
Millicent Freedman's sensitivity to the artistic world was imbued by her refined taste and her instinctive vision. She was ever drawn to beauty and felt increasingly engaged with works of art, which captured that sensibility.
These works, selectively gathered over a thirty year period, have graced a home filled by the love of family, they will now be viewed publicly; a fitting tribute to Millicent Freedman's "Passionate Eye."
Her Passionate Eye: Works from a Family Collection will continue through October 22nd.
Jules Olitski, Embracing Circles, Installation View, 2011
The Jules Olitski family and FreedmanArt are pleased to present eight paintings and two sculptures by Jules Olitski, spanning the years 1965 – 1982. All works are from the Olitski family collection. The artist himself might well agree that the modernist design and open spaces provide an extraordinary setting for this selection of large-scale painting and rarely seen sculptures for this special installation. We are most grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with Tower 49® and to be sharing the seminal work of Olitski in this extraordinary public venue.
In honor of Jules Olitski, Installation at Tower 49®, FreedmanArt and the Jules Olitski Family invite you for a reception hosted by Tower 49® Wednesday, June 26, from 5:30 – 7:30 pm.