© Estate of Fairfield Porter / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / The Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS), London
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Boy Reading,
1955
Fairfield Porter, 1907-1975; born Winnetka, IL; died Southampton, NY; active New York, NY; Winnetka; and Southampton
y1982-21
Porter often portrayed his friends and relatives in familiar domestic settings on Long Island and at his family’s summer compound at Great Spruce Head Island in Maine. Boy Reading is a particularly sensitive example of his early maturity, depicting an appealingly cluttered interior with emphasis on both the human figure and its surroundings, rendered in a manner that mediates between passages of quasi-abstract pictorial space and representation. As in much of his work, Porter brought a sophisticated sense of color to this quiet domestic interior.
Information
Title
Boy Reading
Dates
1955
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
91.5 × 81.5 cm (36 × 32 1/16 in.)
frame: 95 × 85 × 4.8 cm (37 3/8 × 33 7/16 × 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Fairfield Porter
Object Number
y1982-21
Signatures
Signed, lower left: Fairfield Porter '55
Culture
Type
Subject
Fairfield Porter, Southampton, New York, to; Mrs. Fairfield Porter, gift; to Princeton University Art Museum, 1982.
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1982", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 42, no. 1 (1983): p. 50-70., p. 61, p. 63 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 49 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 279
