Fairfield Porter
American · 1907–1975 · Painter, Printmaker
Fairfield Porter was an American painter and art critic. He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet from a literary… (Wikipedia)
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Fairfield Porter was an American painter and art critic. He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet from a literary family. He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Michael W. Straus. He was married to the poet Anne Porter (1911–2011).
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Works in museum collections
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Cleveland Museum of Art ↗
CC0 · Peter Bateman, via Wikimedia Commons (CC0) — Cleveland Museum of Art
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Toledo Museum of Art ↗
Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons (public domain) — Toledo Museum of Art
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