Fairfield Porter

Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 – September 18, 1975) was an American painter and art critic.
Porter was born in Winnetka, Illinois, north of Chicago. He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet. He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter. In 1932 he married the poet Anne (Channing) Porter.
Porter was a figurative painter at a time when abstraction was more popular. He painted landscapes, house interiors, and portraits of family, friends and other artists. He made many paintings of the land, his home, and family in Southampton, Long Island and at Great Spruce Head Island in Maine where they spent many summers.
Work in public collections.
Porter willed about 250 of his works to the Parrish Art Museum.