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Fairfield Porter

Fairfield Porter (June 10, – September 18, ) was an American painter and art critic.

Porter was born in Winnetka, Illinois, north of Chicago. He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet.

Fairfield porter biography Porter is defined, rather, by the completely understated tone of his painting. Modern Art - Defined. Useful Resources. Anselm Kiefer.

He was the brother of photographerEliot Porter. In he married the poet Anne (Channing) Porter.[1]

Porter was a figurative painter at a time when abstraction was more popular.[1][2] He painted landscapes, house interiors, and portraits of family, friends and other artists.

He made many paintings of the land, his home, and family in Southampton, Long Island and at Great Spruce Head Island in Maine where they spent many summers.[2]

Work in public collections

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Porter willed about of his works to the Parrish Art Museum.[3][4][5]

  • Laurence at the Piano (), New Britain Museum of American Art.
  • Katie and Anne (), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  • Still Life with Casserole (), Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • Elaine de Kooning (), Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Frank O' Hara (), Toledo Museum of Art
  • Maine Coast (), Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Chrysanthemums (), Wadsworth Atheneum
  • Schwenk, (), Museum of Modern Art
  • Children in a Field (), Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Boathouses (), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  • The Garden Road (), Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Jerry at the Piano (), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  • Jimmy and Liz (), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  • The Screen Porch (), Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Flowers by the Sea (), Museum of Modern Art
  • Interior in Sunlight (), Brooklyn Museum
  • The Mirror (), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
  • Anne in a Striped Dress (), Parrish Art Museum
  • Under the Elms (), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
  • Sunrise on South Main Street (), Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • The Dock (–75), Farnsworth Art Museum
  • Near Union Square--Looking up Park Avenue (), Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • October Interior (), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
  • Apple Blossoms I (), The Christmas Tree (), Street Scene (), Muscarelle Museum of Art[6]

References

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  1. ↑ "Biographical Note | A Finding Aid to the Fairfield Porter papers, , bulk | Digitized Collection | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution".

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  2. ↑ Vendler, Helen ().

    Fairfield porter biography wikipedia About Us. If you not vain it is not vain to sign them and not vain not to sign them" This was Porter's response on whether or not it was vain for an artist to sign his pictures. Fairfield Porter was a painter and art critic who was working in New York at the time Abstract Expressionism emerged, making the city the new center of the art world. Alex Katz.

    "Ashbery's Aesthetic: Reporting on Fairfield Porter and Saul Steinberg". JSTOR - Harvard Review. Retrieved February 8,

  3. ↑"Fairfield Porter: Modern American Master". Archived from the original on Retrieved
  4. ↑"The Fairfield Porter Collection and Archives".

    Fairfield porter The designs of the girl's vest are echoed in the broad patches of sunlight and shadow on the lawn and in the formations of the tree's foliage. He was an early proponent of Abstract Expressionism and the related movements of color field painting and hard-edge abstraction. Retrieved Porter frequently referred to the abstract artists of the New York School as the "idealists of New York painting," and throughout his career he expressed mixed feelings regarding Abstract Expressionism.

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  5. ↑Spike, John T. Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, p. New York, Harry N. Abrams,
  6. ↑"Explore the Collection – Muscarelle Museum of Art". Retrieved