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Fairfield Porter · 1975
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- 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.
Literature
Published references
- 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.
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