LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

55.00 in. (139.70 cm.) (height) by 37.01 in. (94.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Fairfield Porter 73' (lower left)

Exhibited:

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Recent Work by Fairfield Porter, March 2-23, 1974, no. 35. Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Fifty Works for the Permanent Collection: A Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, May 3-June 2, 1974. Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum; Flushing, New York, Queens Museum; Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, Fairfield Porter Retrospective Exhibition, December 15, 1974-April 27, 1975, pp. 3, 40, no. 9, illustrated. Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; Greenville, South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield Porter: Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction, January 12, 1983-July 22, 1984, pp. 80, 106, no. 104, illustrated.

Literature:

The Cleveland Museum of Art, "Fairfield Porter (1907-1975): Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction," News and Calendar, 1983, p. 3, illustrated. J. Updike, Just Looking: Essays on Art, New York, 1989, p. 119. J. Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels, New York, 2001, p. 298, no. L871.

Provenance:

[With]Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York. Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1977.