Olivier Debré Olivier Debré Olivier Debré (1920–1999) was a French abstract painter. It is following a visit to Pablo Picasso’s studio in 1941 that Olivier Debré, an honoured artist and member of the French Academy, moved from figurative painting to abstraction, and the influence of André Lanskoy that awakened his marked fondness for colour. A major painter of colour fields of the Post-War period, this painter described his painting as ""fervent abstraction"" because it arouses emotions, emotion incarnated by him by the sign. ""I really tried to find how within a sign and without using conventions, I could express something without using
Jane Freeman (artist) Jane Freeman, 1871-1963, Paintings and Ephemera of a Working Artist.” Jane Freeman (artist) Jane Freeman (1871 – 23 September 1963) was a British-American modernist artist whose paintings include portraits of Albert Schweitzer and Mother Cabrini. Her art is part of the collections of the University of Pennsylvania and the Springville, Utah Museum of Art. She was born in Chesterfield, England. She began as an artist's model, then found work as an illustrator for magazines and advertisements. Soon after she became a painter. She studied art with Robert Henri at the Cooper Union and with the Art Students League, both in