id:			143915
accession number:	1968.3
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1968.3
updated:		2025-06-15 11:01:35.521000

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:		001C ArtLens Exhibition
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
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 for 1968
	opening date:   1969-01-29T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review for 1968</i>. 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
	<i>Works from the Contemporary Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 1-October 15, 1969).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '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.', 'opening_date': '1967-12-13T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'New York, NY, Tibor de Naby Gallery, Fairfield Porter (February - March 1968).', 'opening_date': '1968-02-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Chicago, IL, Richard Gray Gallery, Retrospective Exhibition (6 March - 6 April 1968); brochure in Curatorial File.', 'opening_date': '1968-03-06T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '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).', 'opening_date': '1969-01-29T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA:  Works from the Contemporary Collection, July 1-mid-October, 1969', 'opening_date': '1969-10-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '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.', 'opening_date': '1983-01-05T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '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.', 'opening_date': '1993-06-27T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Tibor de Nagy Gallery).
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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History &amp; Education, CMA, 1969.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 4
	url:		https://archive.org/details/20thCenturyArtCMA/page/n5

	Henning, Edward B. “South of His House, North of His House: Nyack, a Painting by Fairfield Porter.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 58, no. 3 (March 1971): 85–90.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 88-89, fig. 8
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152366

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 255
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n275

	Hinson, Tom E. “Alex Katz’s Impala.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 8 (October 1986): 314–26.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 320-321, fig. 11
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159954

	Wilmerding, John.<em> Fairfield Porter.</em> New York: Rizzoli, 2016.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 160-161, pl. 62
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