The Drawing Room and Eric Brown Art Group are pleased to announce the launch of a three month pop-up gallery located in East Hampton, directly below The Drawing Room’s space at 55 Main Street. The first exhibition "Jane Freilicher & Fairfield Porter: Between Friends" opens Saturday, November 14 and will remain on view through Sunday, December 13. Notably, this is the first show presented on Long Island to focus on the close friendship and mutual influence Jane Freilicher and Fairfield Porter shared. Comprising paintings and works on paper, selections include iconic East End landscapes and vernacular village street scenes, as well as intimate interiors and still lifes. The exhibition coincides with the Parrish Art Museum’s show, "Housebound: Fairfield Porter and his Circle of Poets and Painters," in which Porter’s 1967 portrait of Jane Freilicher and her daughter captures their camaraderie during a legendary era when many New York School artists gravitated to Eastern Long Island.
Porter and his wife moved to Southampton in 1949. His works depict the family’s South Main Street home, garden and streetscape, subjects he explored repeatedly over many years. Freilicher first visited the area in the early 1950s, and in 1960, she and her husband, Joe Hazan, built a house on Mecox Bay in Water Mill where she maintained a studio for more than 50 years.
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