Born in 1953, Kinney Frelinghuysen grew up in the town of Princeton New Jersey.
Presently he lives and paints in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, and is
represented in New York at Salander O’Reilly Galleries. He studied at the Ecole
Nationale Superieur des Beaux Arts in Paris France 1979-1983 in the studio of
French painter, Claude Augerau, who described the abstract gestural painting
style of his studio as “peinture Americaine”. He is also a graduate of Bowdoin
College in Maine, ’76.
Frelinghuysen is the Director of the Frelinghuysen Morris House and Studio in
Lenox and Stockbridge, previously the home of American Abstract painter George
L.K. Morris (1905-1974) and his wife Suzy Frelinghuysen (1911-1988); it is a now
modern house museum featuring a collection of Cubist and Abstract art, and
emphasizes the era of the 1930’s and 1940’s. In 1998 Frelinghuysen succeeded in
opening the doors to the public, completing his Aunt and Uncle’s vision of
educating people about abstract art.
Kinney’s most recent one man show of landscape paintings was held at Salander
O’Reilly in July, 2006. He was also asked to donate paintings to two charity
auctions this fall: for the 25th Anniversary of The New Criterion, in New York,
and in England for The United World Colleges, Art for Peace benefit. Both works
resulted in healthy bidding wars. His work has been collected by the late Malcom
Forbes, and art critics Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball, among other private
collectors.
