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Lot 28

Fairfield Porter
(1907-1975)
Cove Bridge 12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm.)

26 May 2022, 14:00 EDT
New York

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Fairfield Porter (1907-1975)

Cove Bridge
signed by the artist's wife 'Fairfield Porter / AEP' (lower right)
watercolor on paper
12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm.)
Executed circa 1965.

Footnotes

Provenance
Estate of the artist.
Private collection.
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York.
Private collection, New York.

Exhibited
Southampton, New York, The Parrish Art Museum, Fairfield Porter's Maine, July 2-Septemeber 11, 1977, no. 30, and elsewhere.
Portland, Maine, Barridoff Galleries, Fairfield Porter, July 23-September 3, 1979, no. 18.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Fairfield Porter: 1907-1975, September 5-28, 1985, n.p., no. 49.
Bridgehampton, New York, Elaine Benson Gallery, The Watercolor Show, June 21-July 7, 1986.
Chicago, Illinois, Compass Rose Modern and Contemporary Art, Fairfield Porter: Pictures and Words, March-April 30, 1987.
Farmington, Maine, Tom Veilleux Gallery, Fairfield Porter, 1995.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Fairfield Porter Watercolors, January 21-March 4, 1995, p. 35, no. 14, and elsewhere.
Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Gleason Fine Art, Fairfield Porter, August 17-September 11, 1996.
Chicago, Illinois, Art 1998 Chicago: At Navy Pier, May 8-12, 1998.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Gallery Artists, July 1999.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Modern at The Park Avenue Armory, Fairfield Porter: Celebrating Four Decades at ADAA: The Art Show, March 4-9, 2014.
New York, Tibor de Nagy, Fairfield Porter: Things as They Are, October 20-December 3, 2016.
Greenville, Delaware, Somerville Manning Gallery, American Masters: Art of the 20th-21st Centuries, March 27-May 9, 2020, n.p., illustrated.

Literature
J. Ludman, "Checklist of the Paintings by Fairfield Porter," Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, New York, 1992, p. 295.
J. Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels, New York, 2001, p. 332, no. L1070.

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