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| 1907 births | |
| porter, fairfield | |
| 1975 deaths | |
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Though educated at Harvard , he was largely self-taught, and produced representational work in the midst of the Abstract Expressionist movement. His subjects were primarily landscapes, domestic interiors and portraits of family, friends and fellow artists, many of them affiliated with the New York School of writers, including John Ashbery , Frank O'Hara , and James Schuyler . Many of his paintings were set in or around the family summer house on Great Spruce Head Island, Maine . His painterly vision which encompassed a fascination with nature and the ability to reveal extraordinariness in ordinary life was heavily indebted to the French painters Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard . He said once, "When I paint, I think that what would satisfy me is to express what Bonnard said Renoir told him: make everything more beautiful." |
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