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News and Articles on Fairfield Porter
Field of vision in Southampton Jun 1, 2007
Even a future Parrish will be a place to conserve a certain kind of reminiscence: of Jackson Pollock careening drunkenly toward a tree in Springs, of Fairfield Porter capturing the hot light of a certain August afternoon, of idyllic vistas that would one day be demolished by an army of backhoes ... "Studio as Muse: Herzog & de Meuron's Design for the New Parrish" opens today at the old Parrish, 25 Job's Lane, Southampton, in tandem with "Fairfield Porter: Inside and Outside the Artist's Studio"... (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Art history class Nov 11, 2006
Look in the corners and there's a deceptively simple portrait from Fairfield Porter (''Katie,'' 1964), a painter known more for his landscapes but here, painting in intimate tones of gray and soft butterscotch, producing a casual portrait of quiet vulnerability that's elegantly disarming. A tightly rendered ''Academic Study of a Male Nude'' (circa 1855) by Frank Vincent DuMond is not only beautifully drawn and unflinching - the man is old, weathered and bent - it's also empathetically seeded... (Cape Cod Times, MA)
ANDY WARHOL & PAT HACKETT Sep 7, 2006
Ted and I both had wanted to have our portraits done by Fairfield Porter, and we d thought that it would be cheaper if he painted us in tandem and then we could cut it apart and each take half. But when he d posed us, he sat us so close together on the couch that we couldn t slice a straight line between us and I d had to buy Ted out. (New York Press)
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