Fairfield Porter Raw Creative (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Softcover edition, published by the Parrish Art Museum, 2010. Catalog to accompany the exhibition of the same name. Fairfield Porter was an artist who worked in a representational style. His subjects included landscapes, domestic interiors and portraits of family, friends and fellow artists, many of them affiliated with the New York School of writers, including John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and James Schuyler. Many of his paintings were set in or around the family summer house on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine and the family home in Southampton, New York. Includes 39 color plates as well as a summary of his life and work. 96 pages, 8-1/4" x 9-3/4". No creases to the cover or spine. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Not a remainder, not a library discard. Edges of the text block are clean, and the binding is tight and square. Attached are some photos of the copy we have in our inventory. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine copy in hardcover with fine jacket. Name on endpaper. Small 4to.

paperback. Condition: fine. 39 full-page plates of works on canvas or boards. 96 pages, tall thin 8vo, pictorial wrappers. Southampton: Parrish Art Museum, (2010). Fine copy. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name. Fairfield Porter (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Parrish Art Museum, 2010. Quarto. Paperback. Book is like new.

Hardcover. Condition: New. - Includes a facsimile from one of the artist's sketchbooks - Publication accompanies an exhibition at Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, April 11-June 13, 2010 - Features an introductory essay by Klaus Ottmann, Robert Lehman Curator at Parrish Art Museum 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.…