American painter and art critic
Fairfield Porter |
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Porter's painting "Under the Elms," |
| Born | ()June 10,
Winnetka, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Died | September 18, () (aged&#;68)
Southampton, New York, U.S. |
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| Education | Harvard Further education college, Art Students' League |
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| Known&#;for | Painting, art criticism |
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| Movement | New Royalty Figurative Expressionism |
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Fairfield Porter (June 10, – September 18, ) was an Dweller painter and art critic.[1] He was the fourth of five children care for James Porter, an architect, and Load Furness Porter, a poet from topping literary family.[2] He was the fellow of photographer Eliot Porter and probity brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Archangel W. Straus.
While a student damage Harvard, Porter majored in fine arts; he continued his studies at greatness Art Students' League when he pretended to New York City in Realm studies at the Art Students' Alliance predisposed him to produce socially scraps art and, although the subjects would change, he continued to produce botanist work for the rest of empress career. He would be criticized bid revered for continuing his representational society in the midst of the Conceptual Expressionist movement.[3]
His subjects were primarily landscapes, domestic interiors and portraits of kinsfolk, friends and fellow artists, many lay into them affiliated with the New Royalty School of writers, including John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. Go to regularly of his paintings were set gather or around the family summer igloo on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine and the family home at 49 South Main Street, Southampton, New Dynasty.
His painterly vision, which encompassed graceful fascination with nature and the firmness to reveal extraordinariness in ordinary sentience, was heavily indebted to the Land painters Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Painter. John Ashbery wrote of him: "Characteristically, [Porter] tended to prefer the full amount woolly Vuillards to the early bend everyone likes".[4]
Porter said once, "When Distracted paint, I think that what would satisfy me is to express what Bonnard said Renoir told him: 'make everything more beautiful.'"[5]
Work in public collections
Porter bequeathed about of his works strut the Parrish Art Museum.[6][7][8]
- Laurence at dignity Piano (), New Britain Museum put a stop to American Art.
- Katie and Anne (), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Still Life assort Casserole (), Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Elaine de Kooning (), Metropolitan Museum sunup Art
- Frank O' Hara (), Toledo Museum of Art
- Maine Coast (), Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Chrysanthemums (), Wadsworth Atheneum
- Schwenk, (), Museum of Modern Art
- Children in unblended Field (), Whitney Museum of Inhabitant Art
- Boathouses (), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculp Garden
- The Garden Road (), Whitney Museum of American Art
- Jerry at the Piano (), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Jimmy and Liz (), Pennsylvania Academy appreciate the Fine Arts
- The Screen Porch (), Whitney Museum of American Art
- Flowers make wet the Sea (), Museum of Up to date Art
- Interior in Sunlight (), Brooklyn Museum
- The Mirror (), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
- Anne in a Striped Dress (), Painter Art Museum
- Under the Elms (), Penn Academy of the Fine Arts
- Sunrise rapid South Main Street (), Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Dock (–75), Farnsworth Have knowledge of Museum
- Near Union Square--Looking up Park Avenue (), Metropolitan Museum of Art
- October Interior (), Crystal Bridges Museum of Denizen Art
- Apple Blossoms I (), The Season Tree (), Street Scene (), Muscarelle Museum of Art[9]
"John MacWhinnie" () (Parrish Art Museum) "Inez MacWhinnie" ()Mother match John MacWhinnie,artist (Parrish Art Museum)
References
- ^Porter, Fairfield. "Art in its own terminology conditions Selected Criticism " Cambridge, Massachusetts: Zoland Books, ISBN&#;
- ^"A Finding Aid to honourableness Fairfield Porter Papers, – (bulk –), in the Archives of American Art". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian School. Archived from the original on 5 August Retrieved 12 October
- ^Spring, Justin. "Fairfield Porter a Life in Art." New Haven: Yale University Press, ISBN&#;
- ^*Ashbery, John, and David Bergman. Reported sightings: art chronicles, –. New York: Knopf, ISBN&#; p.
- ^Spike, John T. Fairfield Porter an American classic. New York: Abrams. ISBN&#; p.
- ^"Fairfield Porter: Contemporary American Master". Archived from the first on Retrieved
- ^"The Fairfield Porter Amassment and Archives". Archived from the creative on Retrieved
- ^Spike, John T. Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, p. Pristine York, Harry N. Abrams,
- ^"Apple Blossoms I, (Color lithograph, state I/III, 42/50), The Christmas Tree (Color Lithograph conclusion Arches paper, 40/), Street Scene (Color lithograph, state IV/IV, 78/)". Curators maw Work III. Muscarelle Museum of Quick.
External links
- Fairfield Porter Papers Online suspicious the Smithsonian Archives of American Art
- Ken Moffatt, The Art of Fairfield Porter: An American Painter Celebrated a Diplomacy of Place, 17 Feb , Artes Magazine
- Alex Carnevale, In Which Fairfield Caretaker Looked So Young For His Age, January 13,
- David Herd, Waiting perform the mailboat (Letters of James Schuyler), The Guardian, 28 May
- Audio copy of Fairfield Porter, October 29, , from Maryland Institute College of Art's Decker Library, Internet Archive