Fairfield Porter (b. 1907 d. 1975), still best remembered as a painter, is now also seen as one of the most articulate art critics of his generation. A poet, philosopher, and political intellectual, ...

“Fairfield Porter: A Life In Art” by Justin Spring (Yale University Press, 383 pages, $35) Treasured as a realist by many people who find abstraction distressing, Porter may be the most ...

Fairfield Porter was an American painter who was born in 1907. His work is currently being shown at Portland Museum of Art, Maine.Numerous key galleries and museums such as BLUM, Los Angeles have ...

In a 1969 interview, the American painter, art critic and poet Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) called the light in New York City “far more beautiful than Paris or Rome.” ...

Fairfield Porter’s turning point as a painter crops up in every account of his life. In the early 1950s, while his close friend Willem de Kooning was painting the Women series, critic Clement ...

Long after artists’ deaths, their reputations often sink into oblivion. But Fairfield Porter, born in 1907 and raised on Chicago’s North Shore, stands out as an exception. He first exhi… ...

The art of Fairfield Porter (b. 1907) might be more admired today than when he died in 1975. If so, it’s because he has given younger painters a way out of their own race with art criticism, ...

Fairfield Porter is the Parrish’s greatest strength. Their collection of the mid-century painter’s work is unrivaled, thanks to a large bequest from his widow, Anne Channing Porter, four years after ...

The estate of Fairfield Porter and the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton have enjoyed a fruitful relationship. Porter's former residence for 26 years stands only a few hundred yards from the ...

“Fairfield Porter: Raw/The Creative Process of an American Master” at the Parrish Art Museum, 25 Jobs Lane, Southampton, through June 13. Information: parrishart.org; (631) 283-2118.

Fairfield Porter Gets Some of What Critics Owe Him Sometimes it takes New York art museums an absurdly long time to recognize the importance of a major “local” talent.

Another Porter landscape from the collection, Views of Islands, 1965, will also be offered during the New York sale of American art. It is estimated to sell for between $8,000 and $12,000.