Fairfield Porter (b. 1907 d. 1975), still best remembered as a painter, is now also seen as one of the most articulate art critics of his generation. A poet, philosopher, and political intellectual, ...

In a 1969 interview, the American painter, art critic and poet Fairfield ... red, mauve, ocher, salmon and orange. Here, as elsewhere, anxiousness is tempered by beauty. In other paintings, Porter ...