Jane Piper (1916–1991) was an American Artist known for her abstract still lifes. Building on the French Modernist tradition of Matisse and Cézanne, she gave color precedence over representation. She was interested in spatial organization and in creating space through color. She studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown and at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and with Arthur B. Carles. She taught painting and drawing at the Philadelphia Museum Of Art in the mid-1950s and at the Philadelphia College Of Art from 1956 to 1985. Piper's first solo exhibition was held in 1943 at the Robert Carlen Gallery in Philadelphia. Her work was also exhibited in New York City and at the Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts annuals from 1945 through 1968. From her first exhibition in 1943 through the end of her life she was given a total of thirty-four solo exhibitions in Philadelphia, New York, and other east coast galleries and her works have been collected by major museums including the Philadelphia Museum Of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts, The Brooklyn Museum, the National Academy Of Design, the Phillips Collection, and the Carnegie Museum Of Art.
