Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) was a brilliant and complicated man who was deeply engaged with the most vital artistic and philosophical debates of his era. These debates echoed throughout his criticism and were essential to the development of his art. He boldly expanded America’s figurative painting tradition by embracing the spirit of the New York School.
What is Fairfield Porter’s place in the history of American painting?
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American Painting
Painting is both an art and a craft. It therefore shares both the unpredictable nature of the imagination which, like the wind, blows where it wills and the social character of an organized skill in human society. . More
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The Critic
“…it can certainly be said that no practicing painter of distinction has ever made so complete a map of the art of his contemporaries—a map to which he himself invented the key, which is also the key to his own mind and art.”
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The Painter
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