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"Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) is one of the great American artists of the postwar period. His work is widely loved for its lyricism and apparently realist subject matter: still lifes, studio and other interiors, landscapes in Southampton, N.Y., and Great Spruce Head Island in Penobscot Bay, Maine, and portraits - including his many friends among the leading poets and artists of the New York School. Yet he was as concerned with color, light, paint handling, and composition as the Abstract Expressionists. The "natural" look of his paintings was achieved after a lifetime spent at his craft. In…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 2001Hudson Hills Press · 400 pages · 9781555951658
Catalogues raisonnésArt, catalogsArt, americanPainting, catalogsPorter, fairfield, 1907-1975