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Touch of Orange Still Life

Lillian Orlowsky

About Lillian Orlowsky

(1914-2004, American)  "Orlowsky was a painter, teacher, curator, critic and mentor in both Provincetown and New York,  She was actively involved in planning for a major retrospective of her work scheduled for 2005 at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts in Dennis and at Provincetown Art Association and Museum.

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.

Orlowsky's early paintings are characterized by vibrant color, and her later works by expressionist use of line. 

Lillian Orlowsky began her art studies at the Educational Alliance on the Lower East Side of New York City. Recognized early as an up and coming artist by the Works Progress Administration where she held the coveted position of "easel artist", she was one of the few remaining WPA artists. She showed regularly throughout her life in both New York and Provincetown as well as throughout the US and in Japan, France, Denmark and the Czech Republic. In New York she showed at the ACA Gallery, James Gallery and Esther Stuttman Gallery. In Provincetown she showed at the HCE Gallery, Tirca Karlis Gallery and Cortland Jessup Gallery and in Wellfleet at Cherry Stone Gallery. 

In addition to painting she worked at a variety of art-related jobs. In the 40's and 50's she was a textile designer. From 1959 to 1962, she was Director of the James Gallery, a cooperative gallery that was part of the avant-garde group of galleries in the Tenth Street area. From 1963 to 1977 she taught drawing and painting at Bronx House in New York,

Orlowsky painted and exhibited widely throughout her life, but in her last ten years she gained substantial recognition. In 1995 she had a three gallery retrospective at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Cortland Jessup Gallery in Provincetown and Cherry Stone Gallery in Wellfleet. She exhibited at the University of Virginia at Blacksburg, where she also taught a master class, traveled to Japan with a group of artists from the Cortland Jessup Gallery, received a grant from the Richard Florsheim Art Fund, participated in numerous programs on the WPA artists and sold to major collectors. She is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Baltimore Museum of Fine Art, athe Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Cape Museum of Fine Art, the Jerusalem Museum, and the Rose Museum of Brandies University.

In addition to her painting and teaching, Lillian Orlowsky curated two major shows for PAAM. The first was in 1990, The Provocative Years, 1925-1945: Hans Hofmann and His Students in Provincetown, MA; the second was in 2000, Hans Hofmann: Four Decades in Provincetown."  excerpted from AskArt.com

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