Fairfield Porter and Alex Katz

Virtual Show

Exhibition Catalogue

"[Katz's best work] reminds me of the first experience, of a first experience in nature, the first experience of seeing... It must be that first 'timeness.' The world starts in this picture."

Fairfield Porter

"Fairfield Porter is a painter of great refinement and subtlety. He has a strong technique and a wonderful sense of place... The realistic world he painted always had a great deal of style."

Alex Katz

"Likeness does not 'stop' the paint [in a Katz painting]. The most ordinary and flattest gray, mixed only from black and white, has the radiance of violet. The green of a real, living plant in the gallery looks less alive than the actually rather abstract green of the foliage in his landscapes.”

Fairfield Porter

"Fairfield made me feel I was okay. He called up and visited... He wrote about me and was very supportive... It gave me confidence."

Alex Katz