Lillian Orlowsky (1914, New York City, NY - 2004, Provincetown, MA) was an American artist known as a member of the American Modernist vanguard of the 1930s. Her paintings spanned a 70-year career. Orlowsky was also a textile designer and served her community as a teacher and curator. Orlowsky's art education began at the Alliance Art School and continued at the

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, the American Artist School, and the

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School of Fine Art. She was also a WPA artist. Orlowsky's paintings are in major public collections including the

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, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Chrysler Museum of Art. Orlowsky was married to the artist William Freed from 1942 until Freed's death in 1984.

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