Mark Freeman

Mark Freeman (September 27, 1908 – February 6, 2003) was an Austrian-born American artist, "whose prints and paintings from the 1930s chronicle a seminal period of New York City’s architectural growth in a style that has been described (by Will Barnet) as a beautiful blend of the poetic and historical."^[1][2]

Biography

Freeman was born in 1908 in Zaleszczyki, Austria, and came to New York City in January 1923.

Freeman had a BA from Columbia College, a Bachelor of Architecture from Columbia University, a Master of Architecture from Columbia, and a Diploma of Art and Archaeology from the Sorbonne in Paris. He also studied at the National Academy of Design.^[3]

He and his wife Polly Allen (who died before him) were married for 67 years. They had two sons and seven grandchildren.^[1] Freeman died in 2003 in New York City.

Administrative art offices

• 1972-1988 President, National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic
• 1975-1977 President, American Society of Contemporary Artists
• 1975-1976 President, League of Present Day Artists
• 1977-1979 President, Audubon Artists^[4]
• 1976-1983 Vice-President, NYC Artists Equity Association
• 1976-1983 Vice-President, Artists Welfare Fund
• 1976-1992 Chairman, Art Committee, Lotos Club, New York
• 1978-1982 Advisory Board, “Who’s Who in American Art”
• 1978-1983 Editor, NYC Artists Equity Newsletter
• 1978-1983 Coordinator, Artists Welfare Fund
• 1983-1988 Consultant, NYC Artists Equity
• 1981-1988 Board of Trustees, Artists Fellowship
• 1988-2003 Advisory Board, Artists Fellowship

Awards

• Honorary Life President, Audubon Artists
• Honorary Life President, National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic
• Associate Member, National Academy of Design (A.N.A.)

Selected exhibitions

• 1968, 1969 Institute of Arts and Letters
• 80 American Prints, State Dept. Traveling Exhibition Europe and North Africa
• International Biennials of Color Lithography
• 1951, 1953, 1955 Cincinnati Museum of Art
• 1964 (solo exhibition) Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
• 15 Artists of the Region, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
• New Print Techniques, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
• Printmakers of Long Island, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
• South Fork Artists, from Childe Hassam to Jackson Pollock
• Four Printmakers, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
• 1990 Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, MI
• 1990 Bergen Art Museum, Paramus, NJ
• 1991 Elliot Art Museum, Stuart, FL

Represented in permanent collections

• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City
• British Museum, London, England
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
• National Academy of Design, NY
• Brooklyn Museum, NY
• Queens Museum of Art, NY
• Museum of the City of New York
• Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• Hengeloose Kunstzaal, the Netherlands
• Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
• Butler Institute of American Art, OH
• Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
• Norfolk Art Museum, VA
• Elliott Museum, Stuart, FL
• Fort Wayne Art Museum, Indiana
• Holyoke Art Museum, MA
• Springfield Art Museum, MA
• Boston Library, Boston, MA
• Wolfson Foundation, Miami, FL
• Slater Art Museum, CT
• Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
• Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
• Lotus Club, NY
• Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
• St. Vincent’s College, PA
• New Britain Museum of American Art, CT

References

• Smithsonian Institution Research Information System; Archival, Manuscript and Photographic Collections, Mark Freeman

Bibliography

• Peter H Falk; Audrey M Lewis; Georgia Kuchen; Veronika Roessler, Who was Who in American Art 1564-1975 ISBN 0-932087-55-8, ISBN 978-0-932087-55-3
• Mark Freeman, New York 1929-1932: Reaching for the Sky ISBN 0-9633374-0-8

External links

• Mark Freeman artworks in Artnet