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The paintings of Maurice Freedman on the Freedacres website are managed by his son and represented in 3 galleries. For inquiries, please contact Alan Freedman.

The paintings of Maurice Freedman (1904-1985) reveal a deepfelt connection with natural world and a profound understanding of the skills of painting. He is a painter’s painter. In a 1982 New York Times review, “Art: Loaded Brush Paintings of Maurice Freedman”, Critic John Russell comments: “... by 1930 he had learned from Andre Lhote and others in Paris how to draw with the loaded brush, how to handle rich and strong color without letting it get out of hand, and how to give individuality to the objects of everyday. There are paintings in this show that deserve to go straight into any history of American painting in this century.”

Born in Boston in 1904, Maurice Freedman relocated to Manhattan in 1926 and, in 1927, traveled to Europe to study painting. In the late 1920’s and 30’s, he was associated with the loosely-knit school of New England painters which included Marin, Knaths, Hartley, and Avery. He was also greatly influenced by the work of Max Beckmann which he first saw in Europe in 1930 and whose directness, power and simplicity of style compared to his own. It was Freedman that first encouraged the collection of Beckmann’s work by Morton D. May who subsequently assembled the largest single collection of Beckmann oil paintings in existence. Freedman held his first gallery showing in 1934 at the Midtown Gallery in Manhattan. During his more than fifty-year-long career, his subjects reflect the varied places he lived and visited: the rugged mood of New England, the energetic pace of New York City, the romantic and cultured history of Europe, and the more meditative and relaxed images of interiors. He was married to printmaker and painter, Louise A. Freedman.

Freedman held his first gallery showing in 1934 at the Midtown Gallery in Manhattan. During his more than fifty-year-long career, his subjects reflect the varied places he lived and visited: the rugged mood of New England, the energetic pace of New York City, the romantic and cultured history of Europe, and the more meditative and relaxed images of interiors.
He was married to printmaker and painter, Louise A. Freedman.

Permanent Collections Include:

Carnegie Institute
Brooklyn Museum
St. Louis Art Museum
Denver Art Museum
Milwaukee Art Institute
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Tel Aviv Museum
Butler Institute of American Art
Dartmouth College
Smithsonian Institution
Los Angeles County Museum