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Original works by Fairfield Porter available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
South Meadow
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
3 works online
Fairfield Porter at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Kittiwake and The John Walton, 1962 (Zoom)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
2 works online
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Missouri
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Portrait of Richard Freeman, 1974
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
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 scheduled to open in 2009
October Interior, 1963
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
The Beach in the Morning #2, 1972
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Wheat, 1960
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
The Tennis Game, 1972
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 NEW!
Seavest Collection of Contemporary American Realism
Breakfast Still Life, 1975
Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Anne, Lizzie and Katie
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
Fairfield Porter at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Fairfield Porter at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
July
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian Institution 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)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Fairfield Porter in the Art Renewal Center
Fairfield Porter in the Artchive
Articles and Reference Sites:
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
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 New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Fairfield Porter Gets Some of What Critics Owe Him
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Whitney Banishes Porter to Its Suburban Outpost
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Trusty Fairfield Porter Is Better Than Ever
Time Magazine
"Yankee Against the Grain", 1993 article by Robert Hughes
"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
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