Fairfield Porter was an American painter and art critic. He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Michael W. Straus. Though educated at Harvard, he was largely self-taught, and produced representational work in the midst of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
His subjects were primarily landscapes, domestic interiors and portraits of family, friends and fellow artists, many of them affiliated with the New York School of writers, including John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. Many of his paintings were set in or around the family summer house on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine.
His painterly vision which encompassed a fascination with nature and the ability to reveal extraordinariness in ordinary life was heavily indebted to the French painters Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. He said once, "When I paint, I think that what would satisfy me is to express what Bonnard said Renoir told him: make everything more beautiful."
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Porter, Fairfield
Late Afternoon Snow
Date: 1972 Movement: Neo-Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on cardboard
Porter, Fairfield
October Interior
Date: 1963 Movement: Neo-Expressionism Theme: Genre Technique: Oil on canvas
Porter, Fairfield
Anne
Date: 1965 Movement: Neo-Expressionism Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Porter, Fairfield
Snow - South Main Street
Date: c. 1972 Movement: Neo-Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on cardboard
Porter, Fairfield
Long Island Landscape with Red Building
Date: c. 1962 Movement: Neo-Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Porter, Fairfield
Red Cables
Date: c. 1940 Movement: Neo-Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on fiberboard
Porter, Fairfield
Jane and Elizabeth
Date: 1960s Movement: Neo-Expressionism Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Porter, Fairfield
July Interior
Date: 1964 Movement: Neo-Expressionism Theme: Genre Technique: Oil on canvas
Porter, Fairfield
Wheat
Date: 1960 Movement: Neo-Expressionism Theme: Landscape Technique: Oil on canvas
Porter, Fairfield
Iced Coffee
Date: 1966 Movement: Neo-Expressionism Theme: Genre Technique: Oil on canvas
Porter, Fairfield
Anne in a Striped Dress
Date: 1967 Movement: Neo-Expressionism Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Porter, Fairfield
The Mirror
Date: 1966 Movement: Neo-Expressionism Theme: Genre Technique: Oil on canvas
Porter, Fairfield
Self-Portrait
Date: 1972 Movement: Neo-Expressionism Theme: Self Portrait Technique: Oil on fiberboard
Porter, Fairfield
Laurence at the Piano
Date: 1953 Movement: Neo-Expressionism Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas