Monument Mountain from Ingleside Cottage

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FAIRFIELD PORTER (1907-1975)
Monument Mountain from Ingleside Cottage
signed and dated 'Fairfield Porter 1974' (lower left)—signed and dated again and inscribed 'Monument Mountain' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.8 cm.)
Painted in 1974.

Provenance

The artist.
James and Patricia Deely, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, acquired from the above, 1974.
By descent to the present owner.

Literature

J.T. Spike, Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, New York, 1992, p. 306 (as Monument Mountain).
J. Ludman, R. Downes, W. Agee, J.T. Spike, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels, New York, 2001, p. 307, no. L906, illustrated.

Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Greenville, South Caroline, Greenville County Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield Porter: Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction, January 12-March 13, 1983, pp. 87, 106, no. 112, illustrated (as Monument Mountain).

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Lot Essay

The present work is one of four paintings from Fairfield Porter's Monument Mountain series, painted from the country home of James and Patricia Deely known as Ingleside in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. On commission to paint Mr. Deely's portrait, Porter spent a spring weekend with the couple at Ingleside where he produced the series, after which Mrs. Deely immediately acquired the present work.

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