JEAN FREEMAN

(American, 1926-2006)

GLADIOLI BY MOONLIGHT

Oil on Canvas

24 x 18 Inches

Signed Lower Left, "J. L. Freeman"

 

Born in Michigan, Jean Sampson studied at the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts (later the Center for Creative Studies) under John Foster before moving to California in 1953. In 1954, she married the artist Philip Freeman and settled in Dana Point where she became a member of the Laguna Beach Art Association and was, subsequently, juried into the Laguna Beach Festival of Arts.

 

Over the course of a fifty-year career as a painter and ceramicist, Jean Freeman exhibited widely and with success including at the Festival of Arts, California Design 8, the Pasadena Art Museum and, regularly, at the Laguna Beach Art Association where she served as selection committee chairwoman. Freeman was also a respected teacher who served for many years as Associate Professor of Art at Saddleback Community College.

 

Source: Nancy Dustin Moure, "Publications in California Art No. 11, Index to California Art Exhibited at the Laguna Beach Art Association, 1918-1972; 2015 edition"