Expressionist painter Katherine Porter was born in 1941 in Iowa. She studied from 1959 to 1961 at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, receiving a B.A. degree in 1963 from Boston University. She was... Read full biography
Expressionist painter Katherine Porter was born in 1941 in Iowa. She studied from 1959 to 1961 at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, receiving a B.A. degree in 1963 from Boston University. She was awarded an honorary Doctorate in 1984 from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The National... Read full biography
Expressionist painter Katherine Porter was born in 1941 in Iowa. She studied from 1959 to 1961 at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, receiving a B.A. degree in 1963 from Boston University. She was awarded an honorary Doctorate in 1984 from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The National Endowment for the Arts gave her a grant in 1972. Her exhibitions include biennials in 1976 and 1981 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; 1980 at the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts;... Read full biography
Expressionist painter Katherine Porter was born in 1941 in Iowa. She studied from 1959 to 1961 at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, receiving a B.A. degree in 1963 from Boston University. She was awarded an honorary Doctorate in 1984 from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The National Endowment for the Arts gave her a grant in 1972. Her exhibitions include biennials in 1976 and 1981 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; 1980 at the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts; 1981, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; 1985, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; and 1987 at the Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City. Porter's paintings are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art... Read full biography
Expressionist painter Katherine Porter was born in 1941 in Iowa. She studied from 1959 to 1961 at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, receiving a B.A. degree in 1963 from Boston University. She was awarded an honorary Doctorate in 1984 from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The National Endowment for the Arts gave her a grant in 1972. Her exhibitions include biennials in 1976 and 1981 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; 1980 at the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts; 1981, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; 1985, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; and 1987 at the Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City. Porter's paintings are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art and Guggenheim Museum in New York City; High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia; and Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachus... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (26)
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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
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art
1993
Eitner, Lorenz (others)
418 pages (color)
Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
196 pages (color)
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Katherine Porter New Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Andre Emmerich Gallery
18 pages (color)
Contemporary Women Artists
1988
Beckett, Wendy
128 pages (color)
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream
1988
Rosen, Randy, et al
300 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
National Mus of Women in the Arts
1987
National Museum of Women
253 pages (color)
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (Exhibition catalog)