Fairfield Porter (1907–1975)
Sun Rising Out of the Mist, 1973
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Oil on canvas
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55 x 37 inches
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Signed and dated lower left: Fairfield Porter 73
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The Estate of Fairfield Porter/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Provenance
- [With] Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York
- Mr. John Whitney Payson, acquired from above, 1977
- Sale, Christie’s, New York, New York, May 23, 2017, lot 22, from above
- Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above
- Collection of J. Jeffrey and Ann Marie Fox, acquired from above
Exhibited
Recent Work by Fairfield Porter, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York, March 2–23, 1974
Fifty Works for the Permanent Collection: A Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan, May 3–June 2, 1974
Fairfield Porter Retrospective Exhibition, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, December 15, 1974–January 26, 1975; The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York, February 7–March 9, 1975; Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, March 23–April 27, 1975
Fairfield Porter: Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, January 12–March 13, 1983; Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, April 13–June 19, 1983; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, November 9–December 31, 1983; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 18–April 22, 1984; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, May 31–July 22, 1984
Literature
Fifty Works for the Permanent Collection (Kalamazoo, MI: Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 1974).
Recent Work by Fairfield Porter (New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1974), no. 35.
Eva Ingersoll Gatling, Kenneth R. Kahn, and Kathryn E. Gamble, Fairfield Porter Retrospective Exhibition (Huntington, NY: Heckscher Museum of Art, 1974), 3, 9, no. 40.
Kenworth Moffett et al., Fairfield Porter: Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1982), 80, 106, no. 104.
“Fairfield Porter (1907–1975): Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction,” News and Calendar (Cleveland Museum of Art, 1983), 3.
John Updike, Just Looking: Essays on Art (New York: Knopf, 1989), 119.
Joan Ludman, “Checklist of the Paintings by Fairfield Porter,” in John T. Spike, Fairfield Porter: An American Classic (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992), 305.
Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2001), 298, L871.
Note
Convincing in their unliteral use of natural and invented color.”[1]
John Updike writes, “He (Porter) was a considerable user of raw white, the caked spreads of it in Sun Rising Out of The Mist and Blue Sunrise give a flat effect, the opposite of atmospheric.”[2]
[1] Quoted in Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2001), 298.
[2] John Updike, Just Looking: Essays on Art (New York: Knopf, 1989), 119.
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