Back of the Studio

Contemporary Art

1975

Fairfield Porter
American, 1907-1975

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Fairfield Porter
Title: Back of the Studio
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1975
Medium: Oil on masonite
Dimensions: 45.7 × 55.9 cm (18 × 22 in.)
Credit Line: Through prior bequest of Ira Simon
Reference Number: 2022.1416

Claire Nicholas White. Fairfield Porter (1907-1976), exh. cat. (Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Harbor Gallery, 1977), cat. 26.
Joan Ludman, “Checklist of the Paintings by Fairfield Porter,” in Fairfield Porter: An American Classic (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992), 307.
Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonee of the Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels (New York:Hudson Hills Press, 2001), 312, L.928.

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Fairfield Porter: His Last Works 1974-1975, May 4-28, 1976, not in cat.
Cold Spring Harbor, NY, Fairfield Porter (1907-1976), Harbor gallery, Mar. 13-Apr. 16, 1977, cat. 26.

Estate of the artist; sold through Hirschl & Adler, New York, to Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI, Aug. 7, 1981 [email from Hirschl & Adler, Sept. 21, 2022; copy in curatorial object file]. Sold through CompassRose Gallery Chicago, to Douglas Feurring, Boca Raton, FL, Apr. 13, 1990 [email from Betty Cunningham Gallery, Sept. 14, 2022; copy in curatorial object file]; sold through Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 8, 2022.

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