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Fairfield PorterBoat Scene1958
1958
$23,000
£17,499.64
€20,163.14
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CHF 18,789.70
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About the Item
Watercolor on heavy paper
work is unframed
Signed by artist in pencil, lower right verso.
Property from the estate of Anne E. C. Porter, with the estate stamp, verso.
Fairfield Porter
Porter's painting "Under the Elms," 1971-72.
Born June 10, 1907
Winnetka, Illinois, U.S.
Died September 18, 1975 (aged 68)
Southampton, New York, U.S.
Education Harvard University, Art Students' League
Known for Painting, art criticism
Movement New York Figurative Expressionism
Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 – September 18, 1975) was an American painter and art critic.[1] He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet from a literary family.[2] He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Michael W. Straus.
While a student at Harvard, Porter majored in fine arts; he continued his studies at the Art Students' League when he moved to New York City in 1928. His studies at the Art Students' League predisposed him to produce socially relevant art and, although the subjects would change, he continued to produce realist work for the rest of his career. He would be criticized and revered for continuing his representational style in the midst of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
His subjects were primarily landscapes, domestic interiors and portraits of family, friends and fellow artists, many of them affiliated with the New York School of writers, including John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. Many of his paintings were set in or around the family summer house on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine and the family home at 49 South Main Street, Southampton, New York.
His painterly vision, which encompassed a fascination with nature and the ability to reveal extraordinariness in ordinary life, was heavily indebted to the French painters Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard. John Ashbery wrote of him: "Characteristically, [Porter] tended to prefer the late woolly Vuillards to the early ones everyone likes".
Porter said once, "When I paint, I think that what would satisfy me is to express what Bonnard said Renoir told him: 'make everything more beautiful.'"
Work in public collections
Porter bequeathed about 250 of his works to the Parrish Art Museum.
Laurence at the Piano (1953), New Britain Museum of American Art.
Katie and Anne (1955), Hirshhorn Museum and 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 a Field (1960), Whitney Museum of American Art
Boathouses (1961), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
The Garden Road (1962), Whitney Museum of American Art
Jerry at the Piano (1962), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Jimmy and Liz (1963), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
The Screen Porch (1964), Whitney Museum of American Art
Flowers by the Sea (1965), Museum of Modern Art
Interior in Sunlight (1965), Brooklyn Museum
The Mirror (1966), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Anne in a Striped Dress (1967), Parrish Art Museum
Under the Elms (1971), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Sunrise on South Main Street (1973), Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Dock (1974–75), Farnsworth Art Museum
Near Union Square--Looking up Park Avenue (1975), Metropolitan Museum of Art
October Interior (1963), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Apple Blossoms I (1974), The Christmas Tree (1971), Street Scene (1969), Muscarelle Museum of Art[9]
- Creator:Fairfield Porter (1907-1975, American)
- Creation Year:1958
- Dimensions:Height: 14.5 in (36.83 cm)Width: 22.5 in (57.15 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Miami, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU38538766902
Fairfield Porter
Fairfield Porter was an American painter and critic whose work brought a modern, painterly freshness to representational art at a time when abstraction dominated the mid-20th-century art world. Born on June 10, 1907, in Winnetka, Illinois, Porter studied at Harvard University before training at the Art Students League in New York, where he developed a lifelong interest in both painting and writing. Working primarily in New York City and on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, Porter created intimate portraits, domestic interiors, and coastal landscapes that reflected the people and places closest to him. His style combined the immediacy of Impressionism with the structure and clarity of modernism, characterized by lush color harmonies, confident brushwork, and a quiet observational sensitivity. Alongside his painting, Porter was an influential art critic, contributing thoughtful essays to Art News, The Nation, and other publications. He championed representational painters during a period when Abstract Expressionism held sway, helping to broaden critical appreciation for figurative art. Porter continued to paint and write until his death on September 18, 1975, leaving behind a body of work celebrated for its warmth, clarity, and deeply personal vision.
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