Katherine Porter
American · 1941–2024 · Painter, Draughtsman
Katherine Porter was an American visual artist. Porter is considered one of the most important contemporary artists associated with Maine. She resisted categorization. Through… (Wikipedia)
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Katherine Porter was an American visual artist. Porter is considered one of the most important contemporary artists associated with Maine. She resisted categorization. Through the medium of painting and drawing her canvases convey the conflict inherent in life. She expressed her ideas with a visual vocabulary that was "geometric and gestural, abstract and figurative, decorative and raw, lyric and muscular."
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In the collections of
Detroit Institute of ArtsFine Arts Museums of San FranciscoMetropolitan Museum of ArtMuseum of Fine Arts BostonMuseum of Fine Arts, HoustonMuseum of Modern ArtPennsylvania Academy of the Fine ArtsSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtSeattle Art MuseumTaubman Museum of ArtVan AbbemuseumWhitney Museum of American ArtWorcester Art MuseumYale University Art Gallery
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Also known as Katherine Page Porter, Katherine Page Porter [sic], Katherine Pavlis Porter
Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), The Met Open Access (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.