Spring, Justin,

Fairfield Porter : a life in art / Justin Spring. - xv, 384 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Family and Home -- 2. Milton and Harvard -- 3. Russia and New York -- 4. Travel and Study in Italy -- 5. Home to America and Marriage -- 6. Murals and Babies -- 7. Winnetka -- 8. Three Homes in Westchester -- 9. Househunting and a "Bivouac" -- 10. Living and Painting in New York -- 11. Moving to Southampton -- 12. Young Friends -- 13. Poetry, Painting, and a Very Busy Summer -- 14. A Summer Illness -- 15. Portraits, The Nation, and a Monograph -- 16. A Yellow Van and "The Four Ugly People" -- 17. Critical Success and a European Vacation -- 18. "Brilliant, Crazy, Heart-Breaking, and Very Mysterious" -- 19. An American Gallery and "Ultimate Reality"

"Fairfield Porter, a twentieth-century painter who produced realist work in the midst of the Abstract Expressionist movement, was hailed by John Ashbery in 1983 as "perhaps the major American artist of this century." This biography of Porter tells his life story - integrating it with his art, art criticism, and poetry - and in so doing explains Ashbery's claim."--BOOK JACKET.

0300076371 9780300076370

99030563


Porter, Fairfield.


Painting, American
Painters--United States--Biography
Artists--United States--Biography
Art critics--United States--Biography

N6537.P63 / S66 2000

759.13