Lot Essay
One the way to their summer home in Maine, the Porter family would stop in Wareham, Massachusetts to visit the artist's wife Anne's parents.
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Wareham, Route 6
Details
FAIRFIELD PORTER (1907-1975)
Wareham, Route 6
signed and dated 'Fairfield Porter 1959' (lower right)—signed again and inscribed with title (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
17 1⁄2 x 31 in. (44.5 x 78.7 cm.)
Painted in 1959.
Wareham, Route 6
signed and dated 'Fairfield Porter 1959' (lower right)—signed again and inscribed with title (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
17 1⁄2 x 31 in. (44.5 x 78.7 cm.)
Painted in 1959.
Provenance
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York.
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Estelle Gross, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel D. Gross, Merion, Pennsylvania.
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
CIGNA Museum and Art Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1983.
Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 2004, lot 248, sold by the above.
Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2005.
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Estelle Gross, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel D. Gross, Merion, Pennsylvania.
Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
CIGNA Museum and Art Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1983.
Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 2004, lot 248, sold by the above.
Betty Cunningham Gallery, New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2005.
Literature
J.T. Spike, Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, New York, 1992, p. 289.
J. Ludman, R. Downes, W. Agee, J.T. Spike, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels, New York, 2001, pp. 164-65, no. L276.
J. Ludman, R. Downes, W. Agee, J.T. Spike, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels, New York, 2001, pp. 164-65, no. L276.
Exhibited
New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Fairfield Porter, n.d.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Fairfield Porter, 1969.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Director's Choice, August-September 1983.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Fairfield Porter, 1969.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Director's Choice, August-September 1983.
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