Fairfield Porter was born in Winnetka, Illinois in 1907, the son of a wealthy architect. He was taken to Europe as a child and exposed to the paintings of such masters as Titian and Veronese. He... Read full biography
Fairfield Porter was born in Winnetka, Illinois in 1907, the son of a wealthy architect. He was taken to Europe as a child and exposed to the paintings of such masters as Titian and Veronese. He graduated from Harvard in 1928 and from 1928 to 1930 he studied Art History with Bernard Berenson. He... Read full biography
Fairfield Porter was born in Winnetka, Illinois in 1907, the son of a wealthy architect. He was taken to Europe as a child and exposed to the paintings of such masters as Titian and Veronese. He graduated from Harvard in 1928 and from 1928 to 1930 he studied Art History with Bernard Berenson. He began his art education in earnest at the Art Students League, where he studied with Boardman Robinson and Thomas Hart Benton. There were two turning points in Porter's artistic life: in 1936 when he... Read full biography
Fairfield Porter was born in Winnetka, Illinois in 1907, the son of a wealthy architect. He was taken to Europe as a child and exposed to the paintings of such masters as Titian and Veronese. He graduated from Harvard in 1928 and from 1928 to 1930 he studied Art History with Bernard Berenson. He began his art education in earnest at the Art Students League, where he studied with Boardman Robinson and Thomas Hart Benton. There were two turning points in Porter's artistic life: in 1936 when he met Willem de Kooning and in 1938 when he saw an exhibition of Vuillard and Bonnard in Chicago. Porter was a nature painter but his nature is tame, sensuous, unthreatening and a comfortable container for the well-ordered and well-lived life. He painted... Read full biography
Fairfield Porter was born in Winnetka, Illinois in 1907, the son of a wealthy architect. He was taken to Europe as a child and exposed to the paintings of such masters as Titian and Veronese. He graduated from Harvard in 1928 and from 1928 to 1930 he studied Art History with Bernard Berenson. He began his art education in earnest at the Art Students League, where he studied with Boardman Robinson and Thomas Hart Benton. There were two turning points in Porter's artistic life: in 1936 when he met Willem de Kooning and in 1938 when he saw an exhibition of Vuillard and Bonnard in Chicago. Porter was a nature painter but his nature is tame, sensuous, unthreatening and a comfortable container for the well-ordered and well-lived life. He painted ordinary objects and subjects, common scenes, things that surrounded him easily. His pictures are gentle companions, good-natured and good look... Read full biography
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About Fairfield Porter: Books
Books & Publications (104)
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A History of American Tonalism
2010
Cleveland, David Adams
592 pages (color)
New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-century
2009
Perl, Jed
656 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings, Watercolors
2001
Ludman, Joan
0 pages (color)
New York School: Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists
2000
Herskovic, Marika
393 pages (color)
On Island: A Century of Continuity and Change
2000
McAvoy, Suzette Lane
58 pages (color)
Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art
2000
Spring, Justin
400 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
1997
Hughes, Robert
635 pages (color)
American Art From the Dicke Collection
1997
The Dayton Art Institute
264 pages (color)
Still Life The Object in American Art, 1915-1995 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Sims, Lowery/Sabine Rewald
175 pages (color)
Monhegan: The Artists' Island
1995
Curtis, Jane and Will, Frank Lieberman, Carl Little (Foreward)
192 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
The Art of Watercolor (Revised Edition)
1994
LeClair, Charles
144 pages
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference
1993
Henkes, Robert
260 pages (color)
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art A Handbook of the Collection
1993
Ward, Roger and Patricia J Fidler (Compilers and Editors)
414 pages (color)
Fairfield Porter An American Classic
1992
Spike, John T
320 pages (color)
Mary & Crosby Kemper Collection Selections from Inaugural Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Kemper Gallery Kansas City AI
28 pages (color)
The Landscape in Twentieth Century American Art
1991
Rosenblum, Robert (intro)
174 pages (color)
Brandywine Valley to the Bay Art from Private Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1991
University Gallery-Delaware
161 pages (color)
Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present
1991
Wheeler, Daniel
344 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Long Island Landscape Painting Vol ll, The Twentieth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Pisano, Ronald G
168 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting
1989
Arthur, John
159 pages (color)
Reported Sightings Art Chronicles
1989
Ashbery, John
419 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Artists in Quotation Dictionary of Creative Thoughts of Painters etc
1989
La Cour, Donna Ward
196 pages
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art Handbook of the Collections
1989
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
198 pages (color)
At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro)
140 pages (color)
Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape
1989
Nelson, Harold B
111 pages (color)
American Works on Paper III (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Spanierman Gallery
150 pages (color)
Just Looking Essays on Art
1989
Updike, John
210 pages
American Realist Painting 1945-1980
1989
Ward, John L
431 pages
Twentieth Century Watercolors
1988
Finch, Christopher
310 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
The Figurative Fifties New York Figurative Expressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Schimmel, Paul
195 pages (color)
Transformation of the Avant-Garde The New York Art World 1940-1985
1987
Crane, Diana
194 pages
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
The Window in Twentieth Century A (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Delehanty, Suzanne
105 pages (color)
American Watercolors
1986
Finch, Christopher
312 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
The Revenge of the Philistines Art and Culture 1972-1984
1985
Kramer, Hilton
445 pages
American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
1984
Baigell, Mathew
420 pages
Twentieth Century American Drawin The Figure in Context (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Cummings, Paul
144 pages
The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How
1984
DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones
320 pages
Art at Work The Chase Manhattan Collection
1984
Severinghaus, J Walter
333 pages (color)
The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Sims, Lowery Stokes
167 pages (color)
American Still Life 1945-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cathcart, Linda L
144 pages (color)
The Artist's Studio In American Painting 1840-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Gregg, Richard N
64 pages
Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler
195 pages (color)
Fairfield Porter Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
107 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)