Orders are despatched from our UK warehouse next working day. In addition to important paintings and works on paper, the Parrish collection includes an unusually large number of works in a less finished state, including some unstretched paintings on canvas and a large number of paintings on boards. Fairfield porter: raw presents, many of these unfinished paintings and accompanying sketches, for the first time, paintings on board and ephemera in their raw” unframed state, drawings, offering an unprecedented insight into the creative process of an artist.

It features approximately 40 works drawn from the Parrish Art Museum’s extensive holdings of his works, given by Porter’s widow to the Parrish after his death in 1975. An accessible and highly illustrated survey of the key developments in the career of this major post-war American realist painter 1907-1975, whose studio was based in Long Island’s East End.

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Fairfield Porter

D. Along with months in maine, in southampton where he purchased a large, Porter lived in New York and from 1948 on, late Federal-style house for his own expanding family. He was also close to the modern poets John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, and James Schuyler. Karen wilkin discusses Porter’s influences and pictorial creativity.

Porter graduated from harvard in 1928 and then studied at the Art Students League in New York with Thomas Hart Benton. Rizzoli International Publications. With virtually all of the artist’s previous publications now out of print, this much-anticipated volume is an important addition to the literature on this great American master.

With a carefully curated selection of the artist’s best works, John Wilmerding, a specialist in American art, gives full consideration to Porter’s expressive compositions and a color palette influenced by his coastal surroundings. A figurative realist in the heyday of abstract expressionism, and friends in new York City, all depicting a relaxed and comfortable world that seemed to mirror his own affluent, Long Island, Fairfield Porter 1907–1975 painted himself, in Southampton, his family, and on an island off the Maine coast, well-connected existence.

. The first comprehensive survey of the beloved figurative realist painter Fairfield Porter to be published in more than two decades. Mcclatchy writes a reflection on one of Porter’s paintings. Distinguished poet J.

Art in Its Own Terms: Selected Criticism, 1935-1975

Rizzoli International Publications. According to the important american poet john ashbery, intuitive, “to read fairfield porter is to rediscover art through the eyes of someone whose intuitive love and understanding of it has been matched by few contemporaries, inspired--I believe no other critic has so tackled the meaning of twentieth century art, ” while fellow New York School poet Barbara Guest wrote, “Blunt, scholarly, has tightened our vision of it.

Known as one of america's finest and most influential painters, Fairfield Porter 1907-1975 was also a prolific and highly insightful art critic. His writing not only reflects the independent, but also covers an extraordinary period in American art, original mind that presided over his own visual works, in which he played the double role of protagonist and witness.

This new edition of art in its own terms restores to print a key statement in the ongoing discussion between Modern art and its past, as Porter reviews such figures as de Kooning, Johns, Cornell, Cézanne, Rodin, Leonardo and many others. Rackstraw downes’ introduction beautifully sets the stage for this indispensable and wide-ranging volume.

Equally seminal are his considerations of the relations between art and science and art and politics.

Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art

Rizzoli International Publications. This absorbing biography of fairfield Porter makes clear John Ashbery`s assessment of Porter as "perhaps the major American artist of this century. Justin spring tells of porter`s troubled, his work as an artist producing realist works in the midst of the Abstract Expressionist movement, his struggle to raise a family while dealing with a bisexual identity, bohemian life, and his late triumph as a painter and critic.

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Lois Dodd Contemporary Painters Series

They are curiously timeless. It provides invaluable analysis and contextualisation of her work alongside such New York City contemporaries as Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein and other denizens of the Tenth Street milieu of the 1950s. Through extensive studio visits and interviews, faye Hirsch considers the processes, places and impulses behind Dodd’s paintings and reveals her outwardly peaceful, reflective canvases to be the product of an alert and forceful eye and a powerfully efficient execution.

Beginning in the 1950s, lois Dodd has steadfastly pursued her observational painting, remaining aloof from passing trends. Dodd’s works capture the intangible character of changing seasons or particular hours of day in locations throughout New York City, rural New Jersey and Maine, but the paintings betray no mark of era.

. This book is the first monograph on the paintings of Lois Dodd. Rizzoli International Publications. Emerging from the shadow of Abstract Expressionism, Dodd and this circle cleaved to an observational painting based in the early modernist tradition. She is widely admired as a ‘painter’s painter’ whose landscapes and city scenes display subtle effects of place, light and weather within graphically distilled compositions.

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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

Joan mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. Rizzoli International Publications. These women changed american art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation.

In ninth street women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future. Grace hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation.

From their cold-water lofts, fought, where they worked, and loved, drank, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. Elaine de kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax.

And helen frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life. Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Jennifer Szalai, generous, New York Times.

Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, wild, sometimes tragic, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting--not as muses but as artists. Her gamble paid off: at twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting.

Fairfield Porter: Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction

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The Undiscovered Country

The undiscovered country does not position painting as a threatened medium, nor as one unjustly underrated, but instead looks carefully at the work of a number of painters who have thoroughly examined their own practices, and who continue to find approaches to representation that can only be resolved through painting.

As luc tuymans put it, "painting is a way of thinking and constitutes an enormous archetypal pattern which artists constantly fall back upon. Through 84 stunning reproductions, the undiscovered Country addresses the ability of painting to tackle issues of representation now that, in the broader culture, the representational function is occupied almost exclusively by photography.

Chronogical, fairfield porter, gerhard richter and others, it begins in the 1960s with paintings by John Baldessari, which range in approach from painterly to conceptual. Nevertheless, the territory continues to be explored. The argument continues with figurative painting from the 1970s by Philip Guston, Kerry James Marshall, and proceeds via influential paintings of the 1980s and 1990s by Thomas Lawson, Luc Tuymans and others.

For painters faced with the metaphorical death of painting, the way forward has indeed been puzzling. Rizzoli International Publications. Also discussed is a group of younger contemporary painters including Mamma Andersson, Mari Eastman and Thomas Eggerer. Used book in Good Condition.

Wolf Kahn's America: An Artist's Travels

The artist shares his unique perspective on the creative process--and many of his own paintings--as he details his journeys across America in search of inspiration while inviting readers to take a peek at his own creative process, recounting the adventures he has had and the people he has met along the way.

Used book in Good Condition. 15, 000 first printing. Rizzoli International Publications.

Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield

He often imbued these subjects with highly expressionistic light, creating at times a clear-eyed description of the world and at other times, a unique mystical and visionary experience of nature. Used book in Good Condition. Rizzoli International Publications. The book includes drawings from his 1917 sketchbook, germany, conventions for abstract thoughtsa"; watercolors from 1916-18 that were the focus of the first one-person exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, in 1930; camouflage designs from his tour in the army and wallpaper designs from the 1920s; watercolors from the 1940s showing the artist's unique technique of expanding and reworking earlier works by pasting large strips of paper around them to dramatically increase their size; and finally Burchfield's large, transcendental watercolours from the 1950s and 1960s.

. Used book in Good Condition. Working almost exclusively in watercolour, snow turning to slush, Charles Burchfield 1893-1967 focused on his immediate surroundings-his garden, sudden atmospheric changes, the views from his windows, or the forest at dusk.

Giorgio Morandi: Late Paintings

This publication focuses on the period from 1948 to 1964, and permutational forms and compositions, during which Morandi developed and refined his investigations of serial, reductive, a body of work that has had a profound influence on twentieth-century art and painting. Used book in Good Condition. Included here are five of the ten iconic “yellow cloth” paintings from 1952, a series featured prominently in the historic 1998 exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and numerous late paintings by the Italian master.

Lavishly reproduced, these immersive plates draw attention to the idiosyncratic perspectival and color-driven decisions that give the work its abstract power. Rizzoli International Publications. One of the most beloved painters of the twentieth century, Giorgio Morandi created works that continue to exert their mysterious power on viewers worldwide.

In addition to an essay by laura mattioli and a foreword by david leiber, who organized the exhibition, Mark Greenwold, Wayne Thiebaud, Vija Celmins, Alexi Worth, Liu Ye, Lawrence Carroll, this catalogue includes a fantastic array of contributions by contemporary artists: John Baldessari, and Zeng Fanzhi.

. The catalogue is published on the occasion of the 2015 exhibition of Morandi’s paintings from this period at David Zwirner, according to The New York Times, represent “lucid perfection, New York—which, at once cerebral and impassioned. It marked the first major presentation of the artist’s late work in America since the acclaimed 2008 retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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