The United Gas Pipe Line Company Collection

UGPL 0152 Porter, Fairfield, Isle Au Haut, 42/100, lithograph, 27” x 23,” 1975 illus: p 91

Fairfield Porter (1907 – 1975)

Written in 1976 for the catalog and reproduced as printed, with spelling corrected. Not current.

Author and critic Fairfield Porter was also a serious artist whose work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the University of New Mexico, Yale University, and many others.

Author of the major work on Thomas Eakins published in 1959 by Braziller Press, Porter also contributed to Art News, The Nation, Art in America, Art in Literature, and The Evergreen Review. He was awarded the Longview Award for criticism.

Born in Winnetka, Illinois, in 1907, Porter studied at Harvard University and the Art Students’ League in New York with Boardman Robinson and Thomas Hart Benton.

From The Art Collection of United Gas Pipe Line Company (Houston, 1976), curated by Susan Rush.