Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina
Campus Box 3400
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3400
Campus Box 3400
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3400
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1907 Winnetka, Illinois - 1975 Southampton, New York. Known for: Landscape, coastal, figure and genre painting.
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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Museums & Collections (34)
All MuseumsBoca Raton Museum of Art
Mizner Park
501 Plaza Real
Boca Raton, FL 33432Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
Bentonville, AR 72712Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California
823 Exposition Boulevard
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0292Flint Institute of Arts
1120 East Kearsley Street
Flint, MI 48503Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
The University of Georgia
90 Carlton Street
Athens, GA 30602-6719Grey Art Museum, New York University
100 Washington Square East
New York City, NY 10003Heckscher Museum of Art
2 Prime Avenue
Huntington, NY 11743Hickory Museum of Art
243 Third Avenue N.E.
Hickory, NC 28601Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
4420 Warwick Boulevard
Kansas City, MO 64111-1821Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
5th Avenue At 7th Street
PO Box 1108
Laurel, MS 39441Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
Amherst College
Po Box 5000
Amherst, MA 01002Memorial Art Gallery
University of Rochester
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607-1415Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004Parrish Art Museum
279 Montauk Highway
Water Mill, NY 11968Pensacola Museum Of Art, University of West Florida
407 S. Jefferson St
Pensacola, FL 32502Portland Art Museum, Oregon
1219 Sw Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
100 St. André Way
Notre Dame, IN 46556San Diego Museum of Art
Balboa Park, 1450 el Prado
Po 122107
San Diego, CA 92101San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103Sheldon Museum of Art
12th &Amp; R Streets
Lincoln, NE 68588-0300Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (SAMA)
Altoona Facility (Brett Building)
1210 11th Ave
Altoona, PA 16601Swope Art Museum
25 South Seventh Street
Terre Haute, IN 47807The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Dayton Art Institute
456 Belmonte Park North
Dayton, OH 45405The Johnson Collection
100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203
Spartanburg, SC 29306The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The Toledo Museum of Art
2445 Monroe Street
Box 1013
Toledo, OH 43697University of Wyoming Art Museum
Centennial Complex
2111 Willett Drive
Laramie, WY 82071Weisman Art Museum
The University of Minnesota
333 East River Road
Minneapolis, MN 55455Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271