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Nyack

1966–1967

Fairfield Porter

(American, 1907–1975)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
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.)
Credit Line
Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1968.3
Copyright
© The Estate of Fairfield Porter / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
001C ArtLens Exhibition
Print
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Did You Know?

Fairfield Porter’s older brother Eliot was an accomplished nature photographer.

Description

A restful scene on a hot summer day in 1954 inspired Fairfield Porter to sketch the original composition for this painting. He and his wife Anne were visiting painter Jane Freilicher and her husband in Nyack, New York, a town on the Hudson River, north of Manhattan. The two women are depicted under an old ash tree-Jane painting a landscape and Anne reading a book by the English writer Ronald Firbank (1886-1926). The following winter, Porter made a small painting from the sketch. This canvas evolved twelve years later, as the artist considered improving the smaller version. Since he could no longer remember the exact details and colors of the original scene, he decided to render the forms in broad, flat areas that define only the essential shapes.
Horizontally-oriented oil painting in flat swathes of solid color depicting two women with light skin tones seated outdoors, one painting at an easel and the other reading on a bench encircling a tree to our left. The tree reaches leafy branches over the scene, providing a medium-green background over light-green grass. The painting woman wears maroon and brown and the reading woman a light purple shirt tucked into a peach and green striped skirt.

Nyack

1966–1967

Fairfield Porter

(American, 1907–1975)
America

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