Fairfield Porter Mirror
In this single work porter pays homage to several of his artistic heroes.
Fairfield porter mirror. While a student at harvard porter majored in fine. Fairfield porter june 10 1907 september 18 1975 was an american painter and art critic. View fairfield porter s 597 artworks on artnet. Fairfield porter was an american artist who produced representational paintings during the heyday of abstract expressionism.
American oil on canvas fairfield porter s the mirror explores the complex relationship between reality and illusion. Buy fairfield porter the mirror 1966 oil painting 12x14 inch 30x36 cm printed on polyster canvas this imitations art decorativecanvas prints is perfectly suitalbe for hallway artwork and home decor and gifts. See available prints and multiples paintings and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices.
He was the fourth of five children of james porter an architect and ruth furness porter a poet from a literary family. Fairfield porter june 10 1907 september 18 1975 was an american painter and art critic. Still life of flowers on a mirror is a recently discovered still life in oil by porter from 1966 and probably was painted inside porter s summer home. It shows an arrangement of red and white flowers and other still life elements placed on a round mirrored surface either a simple mirror a mirrored lazy susan or a serving plateau.
The mirror1966 by fairfield porter porter painted several self portraits of himself in the studio and here he combines a self portrait with a portrait of his 10 year old daughter elizabeth in the family s southampton house. Fairfield porter was one of the foremost practitioners of representational painting in the american art world of the mid 20 th century. He was the brother of photographer eliot porter and the brother in law of federal reclamation commissioner michael w. In this image the artist depicts himself painting a portrait of his ten year old daughter elizabeth.
The mirror s composition is complex. Elizabeth faces the viewer and by implication the artist and the mirror acts as a picture within a picture reflecting porter as well as the room and the landscape beyond the window. For several decades he created portraits domestic scenes and landscapes of the places he lived in all depicting a relaxed and comfortable world that seemed to mirror his own affluent well connected existence. The mirror was created in 1966 by fairfield porter in contemporary realism style.