LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

72.01 in. (182.90 cm.) (height) by 62.01 in. (157.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed Fairfield Porter and dated 74 (lower right); also signed Fairfield Porter and titled The Cliffs of Isle au Haut on the stretcher

Exhibited:

Washington, D.C.,TheCorcoran Gallery of Art;Hartford, Connecticut,Wadsworth Athenaeum;Cambridge, Massachusetts,FoggArt Museum; Boston, Massachusetts,Institute of Contemporary Art;Minneapolis, Minnesota,Minneapolis Institute of Arts;Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Center;Fort Worth, Texas,Fort Worth Art Museum;San Francisco, California,SanFrancisco Museum of Modern Art;Atlanta,Georgia,High Museum of Art;Brooklyn, New York, TheBrooklyn Museum,America 1976,April 1976-May 1978, no. 64, pp. 8,10,64, illustrated in color p. 82 Boston,Massachusetts,Museum of Fine Arts,A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the GrahamGundCollection, 1982, illustrated in color p. 24 Boston,Massachusetts,Museum of Fine Arts,Fairfield Porter: Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction,January-March1983, no.110, p. 106 Rockport, Maine, Maine Coast Artists; Presque Isle, Maine, University of Maine, On the Edge: Forty Years of Maine Painting, August-December 1992 Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Reflections of Monet, September1998-January1999 Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art, 1907-1975, June-September2003

Literature:

Kay Larson,“Painting the Public Lands,"ArtNews, January 1976, p.36, illustrated JoanLudman,Fairfield Porter: A CatalogueRaisonnéof His Prints, New York, 1981, p. 132 John Bernard Myers,“Fairfield Porter: Poet of the Commonplace,”Portfolio,January-February1983, p. 57 John Updike,Just Looking: Essays on Art,New York, 1989, p. 123, illustratedin color Joan Ludman, “Checklist of Paintings by Fairfield Porter,” Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, New York, 1992,p. 305 JoanLudman,Fairfield Porter: A CatalogueRaisonnéof the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels, NewYork, 2001, no. L888, p. 302 Terry Teachout,"Inspiration Point-Retracing Fairfield Porter's Footsteps in Maine," The WallStreet Journal, September 3, 2003, illustrated in color Carl Little and Arnold Skolnick, Paintings of Maine, Camden, Maine, 2006, illustrated in color

Provenance:

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York Alpha Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1977