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Wilkin Karen - Fairfield Porter - Hardcover
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Description: The first comprehensive survey of the beloved figurative realist painter Fairfield Porter to be published in more than two decades. A figurative realist in the heyday of abstract expressionism Fairfield Porter (1907 1975) painted himself his family and friends in New York City in Southampton Long Island and on an island off the Maine coast all depicting a relaxed and comfortable world that seemed to mirror his own affluent well - connected existence. With virtually all of the artist's previous publications now out of print this much - anticipated volume is an important addition to the literature on this great American master. Porter graduated from Harvard in 1928 and then studied at the Art Students League in New York with Thomas Hart Benton. Along with months in Maine Porter lived in New York and from 1948 on in Southampton where he purchased a large late Federal - style house for his own expanding family. Porter painted several artist friends including Elaine de Kooning Larry Rivers and Jane Freilicher. He was also close to the modern poets John Ashbery Frank O Hara and James Schuyler. With a carefully curated selection of the artist's best works John Wilmerding a specialist in American art gives full consideration to Porter's expressive compositions and a color palette influenced by his coastal surroundings. Karen Wilkin discusses Porter's influences and pictorial creativity. Distinguished poet J. D. Mc Clatchy writes a reflection on one of Porter's paintings.
Title: Fairfield Porter
Author(s): Wilkin Karen
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Barcode: 9780847848744
Pages: 240 Pages, 150 Color Illustrations
Publication Date: 10/11/2016
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
Description: The first comprehensive survey of the beloved figurative realist painter Fairfield Porter to be published in more than two decades. A figurative realist in the heyday of abstract expressionism Fairfield Porter (1907 1975) painted himself his family and friends in New York City in Southampton Long Island and on an island off the Maine coast all depicting a relaxed and comfortable world that seemed to mirror his own affluent well - connected existence. With virtually all of the artist's previous publications now out of print this much - anticipated volume is an important addition to the literature on this great American master. Porter graduated from Harvard in 1928 and then studied at the Art Students League in New York with Thomas Hart Benton. Along with months in Maine Porter lived in New York and from 1948 on in Southampton where he purchased a large late Federal - style house for his own expanding family. Porter painted several artist friends including Elaine de Kooning Larry Rivers and Jane Freilicher. He was also close to the modern poets John Ashbery Frank O Hara and James Schuyler. With a carefully curated selection of the artist's best works John Wilmerding a specialist in American art gives full consideration to Porter's expressive compositions and a color palette influenced by his coastal surroundings. Karen Wilkin discusses Porter's influences and pictorial creativity. Distinguished poet J. D. Mc Clatchy writes a reflection on one of Porter's paintings.
Title: Fairfield Porter
Author(s): Wilkin Karen
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Barcode: 9780847848744
Pages: 240 Pages, 150 Color Illustrations
Publication Date: 10/11/2016
Category: Individual Artists, Art Monographs
