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."
Mark Freeman
- Name
- Mark Freeman
- Born
- 27 September 1908
- Birthplace
- Zaleszczyki, Austria
- Died
- 6 February 2003
- Place of death
- New York City, U.S.
- Field
- Painting, Printmaking
- Training
- Columbia University Sorbonne National Academy of Design
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- painter, artist, printmaker and architect.
- Fields
- painting.
- Education
- Columbia University, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture and Planning and Preservation.
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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."
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Mark Freeman (1908–2003) was an architect, artist and painter, among other activities, of American nationality. The architect was born in Zalishchyky and died in New York City.
Mark Freeman was educated at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and Columbia University. Activity centred on painting. Works are held at Museum of Modern Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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Biography
Biography
Mark Freeman studied at Columbia University and Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The field of work recorded is painting. Work by Mark Freeman is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Mark Freeman • Born — 27 September 1908 • Birthplace — Zaleszczyki, Austria • Died — 6 February 2003 • Place of death — New York City, U.S. • Field — Painting, Printmaking • Training — Columbia University Sorbonne National Academy of Design
Biography
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. He and his wife Polly Allen (who died before him) were married for 67 years. They had two sons and seven grandchildren. Freeman died in 2003 in New York City.
Administrative art offices
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 • 1976-1983 Vice-President, New York City 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, New York City Artists Equity Newsletter • 1978-1983 Coordinator, Artists Welfare Fund • 1983-1988 Consultant, New York City Artists Equity • 1981-1988 Board of Trustees, Artists Fellowship • 1988-2003 Advisory Board, Artists Fellowship
Selected exhibitions
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
Early life and training
Early life and training
Mark Freeman was born on 27 September 1908 in Zalishchyky. Freeman held the nationality of United States. Freeman was educated at Columbia University and Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
Explore 1908–2003
The full dated record · 3 entries
1908
Mark Freeman was born on 27 September 1908.
2003
Dies at New York City.
2003
Mark Freeman died on 6 February 2003.
Places
Named by the record
Places
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Zalishchyky.
Birth place
New York City.
Death place
Catalogued output
Writings and published texts
These are catalogued publications carrying the name — editions and printings, distinct from the works they contain and from writing about the subject. The 2010s are the densest part of the run, with 23 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it.
67 editions carry dates between 1733 and 2026
The run opens with The downfal of bribery, or, The honest men of Taunton and closes with Educating Anxiety
The entries follow Open Library
The downfal of bribery, or, The honest men of Taunton
1733
Designing and planning of libraries
1982
Big-League Break (Rookies, No 4)
1989
Big League Break
1989
Play Ball (Rookies, No 1)
1989
Series Showdown (Rookies, No 6)
1989
Spring Training (Rookies, No 3)
1989
Squeeze Play (Rookies)
1989
Play Off Pressure
1989
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67 editions carry dates between 1733 and 2026
The run opens with The downfal of bribery, or, The honest men of Taunton and closes with Educating Anxiety
The entries follow Open Library
The downfal of bribery, or, The honest men of Taunton
1733
Designing and planning of libraries
1982
Big-League Break (Rookies, No 4)
1989
Big League Break
1989
Play Ball (Rookies, No 1)
1989
Series Showdown (Rookies, No 6)
1989
Spring Training (Rookies, No 3)
1989
Squeeze Play (Rookies)
1989
Play Off Pressure
1989
Play Ball!
1993
The Adirondack Mountain Club Canoe Guide to Western and Central New York State (The Adirondack Mountain Club Canoe Guide Series, Vol 1)
1993
Series Showdown
1995
Spring Training
1995
Building Your Own Greenhouse
1997
Gardening in Your Greenhouse
1998
Rookies
1999
Series Showdown #6
1999
Cricket Nature
2001
Social Investigation and Rural England, 1870-1914
2003
Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
2004
International Human Rights Law
2004
English Rural Poor, 1850-1914 Vol 2
2005
English Rural Poor, 1850-1914 Vol 5
2005
English Rural Poor, 1850-1914 Vol 4
2005
English Rural Poor, 1850-1914 Vol 3
2005
English Rural Poor, 1850-1914 Vol 1
2005
Truth Commissions and Procedural Fairness
2006
History of the Company, Part II
2006
History of the Company, Part I Vol 4
2006
History of the Company, Part I Vol 1
2006
History of the Company, Part I Vol 3
2006
History of the Company, Part I Vol 2
2006
Vicarious vagrants
2008
The Kindling Of Greenfyr Book One Of The Reunification Conspiracy
2008
Finding the Muse
2009
Quantitative skills for historians
2010
Necessary Evils
2011
Shareholder Democracies?
2011
Them and Us
2013
Hot Dogs
2013
Priority of the Other
2013
Them and Us: Alternative Reality 2
2014
Sport, Health and the Body in the History of Education
2014
Medicine, Law and Public Policy in Scotland
2014
Rewriting the Self
2015
Psychology and the Other
2015
Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland
2015
Dragon Lives in My Backyard
2016
Willie the Wingless Wonder
2016
Meditation Complete Guide
2016
Santa's Precious Secret
2016
Mind Workout B
2017
Mind Workout
2017
Keto Diet
2018
Entrena Tu Mente
2018
You Are Not a Rock
2018
Little Schizoaffective Book
2019
A further 9 recorded entries stand behind this article and are held on the record.
Catalogued output
Paintings, drawings and prints
These are objects catalogued as visual works, each held or recorded by the institution named against it. 14 works carry dates between 1930 and 1947. The 1930s are the densest part of the run, with 13 titles, and that concentration is a fact about what the registers have catalogued rather than a judgement on the work itself.
The run opens with N.Y. Abstraction and closes with The City Rests
Abstraction
1930
Hall of Science (Detail)
1930
Dairy Building
1930
Hall of Science
1930
General Exhibits Building
1930
Administration Building
1930
Federal Building
1930
Dynamo, Edison Plant
1930
Untitled (Spider Web)
1930
Untitled (South Ferry El)
1931
Steel and Stone
1933
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
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.)
Literature
Further cited scholarship
4 scholarly and reference publications are cited here, each one identified by title and by the publication, publisher or institution that carried it, with its year where the register states one. The cited literature runs from 2017 to 2022, which is a measure of how long Freeman has been a subject of scholarship rather than of how much has been written. The publications represented include QMiP Bulletin and Dialogues at the Edge of American Psychological Discourse. The Encyclopedia cites this literature and does not summarise the arguments of works it has not read in full. Pandemic storytelling invitation: Talks and discussion round with Molly Andrews and Mark Freeman, QMiP Bulletin, 2022. The Mark A. Freeman collection of World War II photographs at George Eastman House, 2021.
A Conversation with Mark Freeman, Dialogues at the Edge of American Psychological Discourse, 2017
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Freeman obituary, New York Times (Feb. 16, 2003).
- 2.Freeman, Mark. Reaching for the sky: New York, 1928-1932 : drawings and prints. Allied Arts Guild. 27 September 1992. 27720208.
- 3.Falk, Peter H. Who was who in American art, 1564-1975: 400 years of artists in America. Sound View Press. 27 September 1999. 42517882.
- 4.Archives of American Art. Audubon Artists records, 1944-2001. Research collections. 2011.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 2
References
Citations
References
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q15454782: Mark FreemanWikimedia Foundation
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The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
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