id: 143915
accession number: 1968.3
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.3
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Nyack, 1966-1967. Fairfield Porter (American, 1907-1975). Oil on canvas; framed: 211 x 283 x 4 cm (83 1/16 x 111 7/16 x 1 9/16 in.); unframed: 208.3 x 279.4 cm (82 x 110 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1968.3 © The Estate of Fairfield Porter / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
title: Nyack
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creation date: 1966-1967
creation date earliest: 1966
creation date latest: 1967
current location: ArtLens Exhibition C
creditline: Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art
copyright: © The Estate of Fairfield Porter / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: Contemporary Art
collection: CONTEMP - Painting
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Fairfield Porter (American, 1907-1975) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 211 x 283 x 4 cm (83 1/16 x 111 7/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 208.3 x 279.4 cm (82 x 110 in.)
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inscription: signed on back of stretcher: Fairfield Porter 1966-67.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1968
opening date: 1969-01-29T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).
title: Works from the Contemporary Collection
opening date: 1969-07-01T04:00:00
Works from the Contemporary Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art (July 1-October 15, 1969).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* New York, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting (13 December 1967 - 4 February 1968), listed no. 116, p. 12.
New York, NY, Tibor de Naby Gallery, Fairfield Porter (February - March 1968).
Chicago, IL, Richard Gray Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition (6 March - 6 April 1968); brochure in Curatorial File.
Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review, Bulletin (January 1969), p. 48, no. 116, repr. p. 29, (29 January - 9 March 1969).
CMA: Works from the Contemporary Collection, July 1-mid-October, 1969
Boston, MA, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Fairfield Porter (1907-1975): Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction (5 January - 13 May 1983); traveled to Greenville, SC, Greenville County Museum of Art (20 April - 19 June 1983); traveled to Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art (9 November - 31 December 1983); traveled to Pittsburgh, PA, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute (18 February - 22 April 1984); cat. No. 63, pl. 105, ill. p. 42.
Southampton, NY, The Parrish Art Museum, Fairfield Porter: An American Painter, 1950-1975 (27 June - 28 August 1993); traveled to Amherst, MA, Mead Art Museum (29 October - 24 December); traveled to Notre Dame, IN, Snite Museum of Art (20 January - 20 March 1994); traveled to Buffalo, NY, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (23 May - 3 July 1994); cat. no. 35, p. 93, ill. p. 51.
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PROVENANCE
(Tibor de Nagy Gallery).
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fun fact:
Fairfield Porter’s older brother Eliot was an accomplished nature photographer.
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A restful scene on a hot summer day in 1954 inspired Fairfield Porter to sketch the original composition for this painting. He and his wife Anne were visiting painter Jane Freilicher and her husband in Nyack, New York, a town on the Hudson River, north of Manhattan. The two women are depicted under an old ash tree-Jane painting a landscape and Anne reading a book by the English writer Ronald Firbank (1886-1926). The following winter, Porter made a small painting from the sketch. This canvas evolved twelve years later, as the artist considered improving the smaller version. Since he could no longer remember the exact details and colors of the original scene, he decided to render the forms in broad, flat areas that define only the essential shapes.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969.
page number: Mentioned: p. 4
url: https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n5
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 255
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n275
Wilmerding, John. Fairfield Porter. New York: Rizzoli, 2016.
page number: Reproduced: p. 160-161, pl. 62
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