Fairfield Porter

Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 – September 18, 1975) 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. He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter. In 1932 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]

Porter willed about 250 of his works to the Parrish Art Museum.^[3][4][5]

• 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^[6]

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