Lillian Orlowsky

{{short description|American artist}}

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| birth_date = 1914

| birth_place = New York City, NY

| death_date = 2004

| death_place = Provincetown, Massachusetts

| nationality = American

| education = Alliance Art School, National Academy of Design, American Artist School, Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art

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| movement = American Modernist, WPA artist

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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.{{cite web|title=Lilliam Orlowsky|url=https://poba.org/poba_artists/lillian-orlowsky-2/|website=POBA|accessdate=27 September 2017}}{{cite web|title=Lillian Orlowsky Obituary|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=lillian-orlowsky&pid=2504479|website=New York Times|accessdate=27 September 2017}} 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 National Academy of Design, the American Artist School, and the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art. She was also a WPA artist.{{cite web|title=Lillian Orlowsky|url=http://www.acmefineart.com/modern/artist-biography-lillian-orlowsky/|website=ACME Fine Art|accessdate=27 September 2017}}{{cite web|title=Oral history interview with Lillian Orlowsky|url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-lillian-orlowsky-15962|website=Smithsonian Archives of American Art}}

Orlowsky's paintings are in major public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{cite web|title=Lillian Orlowsky|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/481828|website=Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection|accessdate=27 September 2017}} the Provincetown Art Association and Museum,{{cite web|title=Artidtd in the Collection|url=https://www.paam.org/collection/artists-in-the-collection/|website=PAAM|accessdate=27 September 2017}} and the Chrysler Museum of Art.{{cite web|title=Lillian Orlowsky|url=http://collection.chrysler.org/emuseum/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/0/title-asc?t:state:flow=9b4dab26-3b24-463b-bb4f-1ce472be4dd1|website=Chrysler Museum of Art|accessdate=27 September 2017}}

Orlowsky was married to the artist William Freed from 1942 until Freed's death in 1984.