The Beginning of the Fields
1973
52 x 76 1/8 in. (132.1 x 193.4 cm)
Fairfield Porter
United States
(Winnetka, IL, 1907 - 1975, Southampton, NY)
Object Type:
Painting
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Marion Stratton Gould Fund
Accession Number:
1986.132
Location: Not currently on view
Bibliography
Ludman L834
Marks
Artist's signature, lower right: Fairfield Porter '73
Inscription, in the stretcher: The Beginning of the Fields '73 Fairfield Porter
Provenance
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, by 1974; Sotheby's, New York, 1986; purchased by the Gallery in 1986
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Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
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Article Author: Schutz, Prescott D..
Article Scope: Entry and reproduction.
Susan Dodge Peters, ed.
Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection.
New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in association with Hudson Hills Press, 1988.
Page Number: 224-225
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Article Author: Holcomb, Grant.
Article Title: Gallery Announces Major Acquisition.
Article Scope: Article and reproduction.
Memorial Art Gallery.
Gallery Notes.
Rochester, New York: Memorial Art Gallery, 1935-1995.
Issue Date: March/April 1987.
Page Number: 2,
Figure Number: 2
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Article Title: Fairfield Porter.
Article Scope: Article.
Arts Magazine.
New York, New York: Art Digest, Inc.
Volume Number: 60,
Issue Number: 3.
Issue Date: November 1985.
Page Number: 141
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Docent Newsletter.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
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Maine Sunday Telegram.
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Sunday Republican.
Amherst, MA
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The Herald.
Miami, FL
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Fairfield Porter.
New York, NY: Hirschl & Adler Modern, 1985.
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William C. Agee.
Fairfield Porter: An American Painter.
Southampton, NY: Parrish Art Museum, 1993.
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The New York Times.
New York, NY: H.J. Raymond & Co
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Article Scope: Article.
Fairfield Porter (1907-1975): Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction.
Boston, MA: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1982.
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Article Scope: Mention.
Elizabeth Brayer.
Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
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Grant Holcomb, III, ed.
Voices in the Gallery: Writers on Art.
Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2001.
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Article Scope: Entry.
Joan Ludman.
Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels.
New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, 2001.
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Memorial Art Gallery.
ARTiculate.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
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Article Author: Ludman, Joan.
Article Title: Fairfield Porter: The Beginning of the Fields.
Article Scope: Chapter and reproduction.
Marjorie B. Searl, ed.
Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester.
Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006.
Page Number: 282-285
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Seeing America
Chapter on Fairfield Porter's The Beginning of the Fields, written by Joan Ludman.
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