LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

37.09 in. (94.20 cm.) (height) by 54.13 in. (137.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed and dated 'Fairfield Porter 1965' (l.r.), Signed and dated again and inscribed with title (on the stretcher)

Exhibited:

New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Fairfield Porter: Recent Paintings, February 15-March 5, 1966. Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Fairfield Porter: Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction, January 12-March 13, 1983, pp. 36, 104, no. 50, illustrated.

Literature:

D. Thomas, 'Fairfield Porter--Poet of Penobscot Bay,' Down East: The Magazine of Maine, vol. XXX, no. 1, August 1983, p. 3, cover illustration. J. Barnitz, et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Art of the Western Hemisphere, vol. II, New York, 1988, pp. 129-30, no. 62, illustrated. J. Ludman, 'Checklist of Paintings by Fairfield Porter,' Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, New York, 1992, p. 295. J. Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels, New York, 2001, p. 216, no. L516.

Provenance:

[With]Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, 1965. Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1965.