Fairfield Porter : a life in art
Spring, Justin (, 1962-)
Fairfield Porter : a life in art / Justin Spring - New Haven : Yale University Press , 2000 - 384 p. : illus. ; 26 cm
Index included
Family and home Milton and Harvard Russia and New York Travel and study in Italy Home to America and marriage Murals and babies Winnetka Three homes in Westchester Househunting and a Bivouac Living and painting in New York Moving to Southampton Young friends Poetry, painting and a very busy summer A summer illness Portraits, The nation and a monograph A yellow van and The four ugly people Critical success and a European vacation Brilliant, crazy, heart-breaking, and very mysterious An American gallery and ultimate reality
Fairfield Porter, a twentieth-century painter who produced realist work in the midst of the Abstract Expressionist movement, was hailed by John Ashbery in 1983 as "perhaps the major American artist of this century." This biography of Porter tells his life story - integrating it with his art, art criticism, and poetry - and in so doing explains Ashbery's claim.
English
9780300076370
Porter, Fairfield (1907-1975)
Artists---United States----Biography
Critics---United States
700.92 POR
Fairfield Porter : a life in art / Justin Spring - New Haven : Yale University Press , 2000 - 384 p. : illus. ; 26 cm
Index included
Family and home Milton and Harvard Russia and New York Travel and study in Italy Home to America and marriage Murals and babies Winnetka Three homes in Westchester Househunting and a Bivouac Living and painting in New York Moving to Southampton Young friends Poetry, painting and a very busy summer A summer illness Portraits, The nation and a monograph A yellow van and The four ugly people Critical success and a European vacation Brilliant, crazy, heart-breaking, and very mysterious An American gallery and ultimate reality
Fairfield Porter, a twentieth-century painter who produced realist work in the midst of the Abstract Expressionist movement, was hailed by John Ashbery in 1983 as "perhaps the major American artist of this century." This biography of Porter tells his life story - integrating it with his art, art criticism, and poetry - and in so doing explains Ashbery's claim.
English
9780300076370
Porter, Fairfield (1907-1975)
Artists---United States----Biography
Critics---United States
700.92 POR
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