Episode 33: Fairfield Porter’s Beautiful Reality

Despite being part of the hip to be avant-garde New York School, Fairfield Porter went against the conventional cool of the period and painted decidedly realistic paintings of the beautiful everyday. Revolutionary pieces of total normality.

Notes:

Frank O’Hara reads “Having a Coke with you”

The Collector: Fairfield Porter: A Realist in the Age of Abstraction

ArtNet: Fairfield Porter

Tate: New York School

Frank O’Hara — Fairfield Porter (1957)

Girl and Geranium by Fairfield Porter, 1963

Flowers by the Sea [Detail] by Fairfield Porter, 1965

Clothesline by Fairfield Porter, 1958

Still Life with Casserole by Fairfield Porter, 1955

Interior in Sunlight by Fairfield Porter, 1965