Fairfield Porter: Raw The Creative Process of An American Master
Klaus Ottmann
Published by GILES in association with Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Publish Date — June 2010 (UK and USA)
Dimensions — 96 pages, 250 x 210 mm (8 ¼ x 10 in.), portrait
Illustrations — 46 colour and 1 b & w
Hardback price — UK£24.95/US$39.95
ISBN — 1-904832-72-5
ISBN — 978-1-904832-72-0
Book Details (pdf) — Parrish-Porter-AI-LR.pdf
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Sales Points
“I think that Ingres’s remark that “I leave it to time to finish my paintings” is true in a very wide and profound way.” Fairfield Porter interviewed by Paul Cummings, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
“As a painter, he was studiously casual…he painted what was in or around the house or yard, and whoever was willing to pose.” Rackstraw Downes, “The Thought Behind the Painting,” in Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: Catalogue Raisonné
Includes illustrated pages from one of the artist’s sketchbooks
About the Book
Fairfield Porter: Raw is an accessible and highly illustrated survey of the key developments in the career of this major post-war American realist painter (1907-1975), whose studio was based in Long Island’s East End. It features approximately 40 works drawn from the Parrish Art Museum’s extensive holdings of his works, given by Porter’s widow to the Parrish after his death in 1975. In addition to important paintings and works on paper, the Parrish collection includes an unusually large number of works in a less finished state, including some unstretched paintings on canvas and a large number of paintings on boards. Fairfield Porter Raw presents, for the first time, many of these unfinished paintings and accompanying sketches, drawings, paintings on board and ephemera in their “raw” (unframed) state, offering an unprecedented insight into the creative process of an artist.
