"The Great Spruce" by Alex Carnelevale


Fairfield Porter, Wheat, 1960
"This summer, the Michael Rosenfeld gallery exhibited a few of Fairfield Porter's paintings of places surrounding his family's summer home in Great Spruce Head, Maine. It was a little underwhelming. For I have always thought that beneath Porter's ostensibly placid paintings lurks something more, evidence of his greatness in the form, if you know the right places to look. Although literature is often easy to enjoy without knowledge of its author, visual art is a different story, and Porter lived passionately in an interesting time and place."
This Recording

2008 May: Fairfield Porter
2010 June: Fairfield Porter - 1
2011 August: "Respect For Things As They Are" - by John Ashbery

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