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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

“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.

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 ...

Luscious paint, color, and gesture describe the early Spring landscape in this mid-1960s canvas by American painter Fairfield Porter. Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) was an American painter and art ...

Fairfield Porter’s “July” (1971) is one of his paintings at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery portraying summer on the East Coast. ... Global Arts Festival Takes Shape: ...

I was at Catching the Light, Lois Dodd’s retrospective at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the August day I got the news that critic Robert Hughes had passed away at Calvary Hospital in ...