Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art

Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art by Spring, Mr. Justin. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780300076370.

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, bohemian life, his struggle to raise a family while dealing with a bisexual identity, his work as an artist producing realist works in the midst of the Abstract Expressionist movement, and his late triumph as a painter and critic.