Fairfield Porter

Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 – September 18, 1975) was an American painter and art critic.

Porter was born in Winnetka, Illinois, north of Chicago. He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet. He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter. In 1932 he married the poet Anne (Channing) Porter.

Porter was a figurative painter at a time when abstraction was more popular. He painted landscapes, house interiors, and portraits of family, friends and other artists. He made many paintings of the land, his home, and family in Southampton, Long Island and at Great Spruce Head Island in Maine where they spent many summers.

Work in public collections
alt=Image of man on a sofa in white shorts and gray shirt leaning on a yellow pillow |thumb|Frank O'Hara (1957) by Fairfield Porter (Toledo Art Museum)
Porter willed about 250 of his works to the Parrish Art Museum.Spike, John T. Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, p. 282-307.New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1992
 Laurence at the Piano (1953), New Britain Museum of American Art.
 Katie and Anne (1955), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
 Still Life with Casserole (1955), Smithsonian American Art Museum
 Elaine de Kooning (1957), Metropolitan Museum of Art
 Frank O' Hara (1957), Toledo Museum of Art
 Maine Coast (1958), Metropolitan Museum of Art
 Chrysanthemums (1958), Wadsworth Atheneum
 Schwenk, (1959), Museum of Modern Art
 Children in a Field (1960), Whitney Museum of American Art
 Boathouses (1961), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
 The Garden Road (1962), Whitney Museum of American Art
 Jerry at the Piano (1962), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
 Jimmy and Liz (1963), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
 The Screen Porch (1964), Whitney Museum of American Art
 Flowers by the Sea (1965), Museum of Modern Art
 Interior in Sunlight (1965), Brooklyn Museum
 The Mirror (1966), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
 Anne in a Striped Dress (1967), Parrish Art Museum
 Under the Elms (1971), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
 Sunrise on South Main Street (1973), Metropolitan Museum of Art
 The Dock (1974–75), Farnsworth Art Museum
 Near Union Square--Looking up Park Avenue (1975), Metropolitan Museum of Art
 October Interior (1963), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
 Apple Blossoms I (1974), The Christmas Tree (1971), Street Scene (1969), Muscarelle Museum of Art

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Category:American art critics
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