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1847 Hartford, Connecticut - 1923. Known for: Fruit and floral still life painting.
Citizens of Color, 1863-1890: The "Talented Tenth . Charles Ethan Porter. Mounting racism certainly was a barrier that narrowed the range of employment and limited the satisfaction that would result... Read full biography
Citizens of Color, 1863-1890: The "Talented Tenth . Charles Ethan Porter. Mounting racism certainly was a barrier that narrowed the range of employment and limited the satisfaction that would result from work, but it was somewhat more permeable for Blacks with unique talents or abilities. Such a... Read full biography
Citizens of Color, 1863-1890: The "Talented Tenth . Charles Ethan Porter. Mounting racism certainly was a barrier that narrowed the range of employment and limited the satisfaction that would result from work, but it was somewhat more permeable for Blacks with unique talents or abilities. Such a person was Charles Porter, who has recently been rediscovered as a major 19th painter. Only a small portion of his works are known today, and what we do have tends to be work done in old age after the... Read full biography
Citizens of Color, 1863-1890: The "Talented Tenth . Charles Ethan Porter. Mounting racism certainly was a barrier that narrowed the range of employment and limited the satisfaction that would result from work, but it was somewhat more permeable for Blacks with unique talents or abilities. Such a person was Charles Porter, who has recently been rediscovered as a major 19th painter. Only a small portion of his works are known today, and what we do have tends to be work done in old age after the height of his creative vigor had already passed. Porter's family had lived in Hartford since the 18th century, but his father moved to a house in Rockville while Charles was a young boy (we are not sure of his birth date, which was approximately... Read full biography
Citizens of Color, 1863-1890: The "Talented Tenth . Charles Ethan Porter. Mounting racism certainly was a barrier that narrowed the range of employment and limited the satisfaction that would result from work, but it was somewhat more permeable for Blacks with unique talents or abilities. Such a person was Charles Porter, who has recently been rediscovered as a major 19th painter. Only a small portion of his works are known today, and what we do have tends to be work done in old age after the height of his creative vigor had already passed. Porter's family had lived in Hartford since the 18th century, but his father moved to a house in Rockville while Charles was a young boy (we are not sure of his birth date, which was approximately 1847-50). It appears that, although Porter kept a studio in a tower on a Rockville hilltop not... Read full biography
Charles Porter - Artist Info
About Charles Porter: Keywords
Keywords (16)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art School
- •National Academy of Design School, New York, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Still Life Specialty
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art