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About The Artist: Fairfield Porter

Fairfield Porter was an intelligent and enigmatic artists because he was a realist in an era dominated byAbstract Expressionism. He was good friends with many of the Abstract Expressionists, especially Willem de Kooning, He was also an art critic who wrote for "Art News" and "The Nation". Porter was also a conservationist, activist, and polemicist who opposed nuclear arms, pesticides, urban sprawl, and the Vietnam War. Porter’s art and art...