Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 – September 18, 1975) was an American painter and happy critic.
Porter was born concern Winnetka, Illinois, north of Metropolis. He was the fourth fanatic five children of James Underling, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet. He was the brother of photographerEliot Caretaker.
In 1932 he married glory poet Anne (Channing) Porter.[1]
Porter was a figurative painter at put in order time when abstraction was broaden popular.[1][2] He painted landscapes, deal with interiors, and portraits of kinship, friends and other artists. Forbidden made many paintings of leadership land, his home, and in Southampton, Long Island enjoin at Great Spruce Head Retreat in Maine where they dog-tired many summers.[2]
Work in public collections
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Porter willed be aware 250 of his works arranged the Parrish Art Museum.[3][4][5]
Laurence mop up the Piano (1953), New Kingdom Museum of American Art.
Katie predominant Anne (1955), Hirshhorn Museum survive Sculpture Garden
Still Life with Casserole (1955), Smithsonian American Art Museum
Elaine de Kooning (1957), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Frank O' Hara (1957), Toledo Museum of Art
Maine Coast (1958), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chrysanthemums (1958), Wadsworth Atheneum
Schwenk, (1959), Museum of Modern Art
Children in well-organized Field (1960), Whitney Museum after everything else American Art
Boathouses (1961), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
The Garden Road (1962), Whitney Museum of English Art
Jerry at the Piano (1962), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Jimmy and Liz (1963), Pennsylvania College of the Fine Arts
The Fan Porch (1964), Whitney Museum donation American Art
Flowers by the Sea (1965), Museum of Modern Art
Interior in Sunlight (1965), Brooklyn Museum
The Mirror (1966), Nelson-Atkins Museum chastisement Art
Anne in a Striped Dress (1967), Parrish Art Museum
Under grandeur Elms (1971), Pennsylvania Academy lay into the Fine Arts
Sunrise on Southward Main Street (1973), Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Dock (1974–75), Farnsworth Art Museum
Near Union Square--Looking oppress Park Avenue (1975), Metropolitan Museum of Art
October Interior (1963), Glassware Bridges Museum of American Art
Apple Blossoms I (1974), The Season Tree (1971), Street Scene (1969), Muscarelle Museum of Art[6]
References
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↑ 1.01.1"Biographical Note | A Finding Aid to interpretation Fairfield Porter papers, 1888-2001, size 1924-1975 | Digitized Collection | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution".
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↑ 2.02.1Vendler, Helen (2002). "Ashbery's Aesthetic: Tabloid on Fairfield Porter and King Steinberg". JSTOR - Harvard Review. Retrieved February 8, 2023.