Maine. 1877 - 1943
Modernist sea-land imagery, mountain, still-life and portrait painting
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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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New York. 1892 - 1964
Abstraction, mod-real imagery
New York, Maine / France. 1870 - 1953
Painting-modernist landscape-coastal, etching
New York, Connecticut. 1885 - 1965
Abstract sea-landscape and nude figure painting
New York, California. 1877 - 1949
Clown figure and portrait painting, cartoons, some sculptural work
New York, Ohio. 1893 - 1967
Landscape-structure and modernist botanic painting
New York / France. 1868 - 1932
Paintings-figure, still life, landscape
New York, Massachusetts. 1882 - 1967
Town-landscape, genre and figure painting
New York / France, Russian Federation. 1881 - 1961
Cubist, futurist and fauvist painting-landscape, figure and still life
New York. 1880 - 1946
Abstract botanic landscape painting
Massachusetts, New York / France. 1858 - 1924
Modernist genre-crowds, landscape and still life painting
New York, California, Maine. 1887 - 1966
Abstract sculpture, modernist landscape and figure painting
New York, Massachusetts. 1859 - 1935
Flag parades, figure and interior scene painting, etchings
Pennsylvania, New York / Europe. 1883 - 1935
Precisionist painting, landscape, still life, figure, portrait, industrial scene
Massachusetts, New York / Germany. 1867 - 1938
Modernist architecture painting, landscape, colorist
New York, Vermont. 1898 - 1954
Illustration, urban realistic painting-figure and genre
New York, New Mexico / Europe. 1884 - 1974
Landscape, cityscape, figure, still life and genre painting, teaching
New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts / France. 1884 - 1958
Figure, genre, carnival and interior painting
New York, Ohio. 1882 - 1925
Genre, portrait, and street-landscape painting
Pennsylvania, Maine. 1917 - 2009
Figure, portrait, landscape and genre painting
New York / Italy, France. 1877 - 1946
Modernist figure, landscape and still life painting
New York / France, Poland. 1882 - 1946
Abstract figure and animal sculpture
New York. 1866 - 1933
Urban genre and portrait painting, illustration
Pennsylvania, New York. 1883 - 1965
Precisionist painting-architecture, landscape, interiors
New Mexico, New York. 1887 - 1986
Abstract botanical and landscape structure painting
New York, Virginia. 1860 - 1961
Naive landscape and rural genre naive painting
New York, Ohio / England. 1891 - 1948
Precisionist architectural views and still-life painting
Massachusetts / United Kingdom, Italy. 1856 - 1925
Portrait, figure, landscape and mural painting
New York, California, Indiana. 1849 - 1916
Plein-air landscape, interior scenes and genre painting, teaching
Massachusetts, Maine / England. 1836 - 1910
Genre, marine, and figure painting, illustration
New York, New Mexico, New Hampshire. 1871 - 1951
Social realist painting, illustration, teaching
New York, Connecticut. 1901 - 1973
Social surreal genre and abstraction painting