Tuesday 26 January 2010Fairfield Porter: Raw- The Creative Process of an American Master

Published by D Giles Limited in association with the Parrish Art Museum, Fairfield Porter: Raw–The Creative Process of an American Master 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.

In 1979 Porter’s widow donated to the Parrish Art Museum 250 of his works including paintings and works on paper, and many unfinished pieces, among which were unstretched paintings on canvas, paintings on boards, sketches and notebooks. Fairfield Porter: Raw features approximately 40 works drawn from this extensive holding, and presents, for the first time, paintings and accompanying sketches, drawings, and ephemera in their “raw” state. The juxtaposition between the finished and unfinished works illustrated in this volume, along with Klaus Ottmann’s illuminating essay, An Unfinished Quality: Fairfield Porter’s Creative Process, offer a rare insight into the working practice of a modern American master. Fairfield Porter: Raw both reveals and celebrates Porter’s artistic legacy and its continuing influence throughout the world.

The volume includes facsimiles from one of the artist’s sketchbooks, and of a double-page spread from Frank O’Hara’s article Porter paints a picture from the January 1955 issue of ARTnews.

The accompanying exhibition opens at the Parrish Art Museum on April 11, 2010 running through June 13, 2010, with additional tour venues to be confirmed.

The Author
Klaus Ottmann is the Robert Lehman Curator, Parrish Art Museum, and an independent scholar. His most recent publications include Yves Klein: Works/Writings/Interview (2010) and Thought Through My Eyes: Writing About Art 1984 - 2004 (2005).

FAIRFIELD PORTER: RAW - THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF AN AMERICAN MASTER

96 pages, 250 x 210mm (8¼ x 10 in.), portrait
46 colour and 1 b&w illustrations, hardback
Text: Up to 12,000 words
ISBN: 978 1 904832 72 0 (13 digit)
ISBN: 1 904832 72 5 (10 digit)
Price: US$39.95/UK£24.95
Publication date: June, 2010
Publisher: D Giles Limited, London

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