Fairfield Porter art links 

Original works by Fairfield Porter available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!
Paintings collection online

Museum of Modern Art, New York City

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online

Fairfield Porter at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
2 works online

Akron Art Museum, Ohio   NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)

Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Missouri

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Portrait of Richard Freeman, 1974

Brooklyn Museum, New York City

Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)

Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Stephen and Kathy, 1963

Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
View Toward Little Spruce Head

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum which, when we last checked, had not yet opened to the public
October Interior, 1963

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
The Beach in the Morning #2, 1972

Hammer Museum, California
Amherst Campus No. 1, 1969

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Wheat, 1960

Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi

Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages, Stony Brook, New York
(Click on the object number for the artwork title & other information)

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
3 works online

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
The Mirror, 1966

Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Click on the artist's name for a total of 7 paintings

Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Information about the museum's Fairfield Porter Collection and Archives

Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
View Towards the Studio, 1967

Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Blue Landscape

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Seavest Collection of Contemporary American Realism
Breakfast Still Life, 1975

Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Anne, Lizzie and Katie

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Fairfield Porter at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
July

University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City

Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 

Art Signature Dictionary   NEW!

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Fairfield Porter at The Art Renewal Center

Fairfield Porter at The Artchive

Additional Image Search Tools:
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Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Fairfield Porter  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Resource Library Magazine

Fairfield Porter at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
1968 interview from the Oral History project

Fairfield Porter at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Fairfield Porter papers online

The Art Story

The New York Observer
"Fairfield Porter Gets Some of What Critics Owe Him", article by Hilton Kramer

The New York Observer
"Whitney Banishes Porter to Its Suburban Outpost", article by Hilton Kramer

The New York Observer
"Trusty Fairfield Porter Is Better Than Ever", article by Hilton Kramer

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art look inside Fairfield Porter: Catalogue Raisonne