By Hilton Kramer 4/17/00 12:00am

Trusty Fairfield Porter Is Better Than Ever

The passage of time, which can bury a once flashy reputation with a cruel finality, can also allow certain reputations to prosper beyond anything that was thought possible in the artist’s lifetime. The latter has certainly been the happy fate of the late Fairfield Porter (1907-1975). In the course of his long career, Porter did Read More

By Richard Howard 4/03/00 12:00am

An Affair of Places: A Testy Master’s Life

Fairfield Porter: A Life in Art , by Justin Spring. Yale University Press, 384 pages, $35.

So detailed, indeed so strenuous is Justin Spring’s account of our finest American painter of domestic life and landscape since Whistler (who, as Porter admiringly observed, “let no idea come between him and his skill”), that Fairfield Porter, who Read More