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Property from a Private Collection, Los Angeles

Fairfield Porter

Katie and Forsythia (Girl with Forsythia)

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Property from a Private Collection, Los Angeles

Fairfield Porter

1907 - 1975


Katie and Forsythia (Girl with Forsythia)

signed and dated 1960 (lower right)

oil on canvas

72 by 60 in.

182.9 by 152.4 cm.

Executed in 1960. 

Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Cohen, New York (acquired from the above)
Private Collection (acquired from the estate of the above)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
John T. Spike, Fairfield Porter: An American Classic, New York, 1992, p. 290
Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels, New York, 2001, no. L295, p. 169, illustrated
New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New Paintings by Fairfield Porter, November 1960, illustrated (on the cover)
Cleveland Museum of Art, The Genre Art of Fairfield Porter, August - September 1960, illustrated
Stamford, Connecticut, Whitney Museum of American Art (Fairfield County), Fairfield Porter: Portraits, June - August 1984