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Richard Powell, From the Potomac to the Anacostia: Art & Ideology in the Washington Area (Washington, D.C.: Washington Project for the Arts, 1989) Constance Porter Uzelac, James A. Porter, Artist and Art Historian: The Memory of the Legacy (Washington, D.C.: Howard Univ. Gallery of Art, 1992) Deborah Willis, Reflections in Black (2000)
James A. Porter, African Nude, 1934.Harmon Foundation Collection. Porter began his career as an instructor of painting and drawing at Howard University.During his four decade Howard tenure, he would work with artists, such as James Lesesne Wells and Lois Mailou Jones, chair the Art Department, and serve as Director of the Art Gallery (1953 through 1970). [4]
Fairfield Porter (June 10, 1907 – September 18, 1975) was an American painter and art critic. [1] He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet from a literary family. [2] He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Michael W ...
In the fall of 1873, Porter studied art with Joseph Oriel Eaton, a prominent portrait and landscape painter, for a year. Every year, he studied and painted in New York City from fall through spring but returned to Rockville in the summer to paint and teach art classes. From 1873 to 1875, Porter started to sell his work.
The List of painters in the National Gallery of Art is a list of the named artists in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. whose works there comprise oil paintings, gouaches, tempera paintings, and pastels. The online collection contains roughly 4,000 paintings by 1,000 artists, but only named painters with the previously mentioned ...
Guyan Porter (born 1971, Aberdeen, Scotland) is a visual artist living in Sussex, England, and working internationally. His work encompasses installation , sculpture , painting , architectural and public interventions and studio-based work that explores 'the sociological and psychological foundations of belief'. [ 1 ]
Porter, who began his career as a figure painter, eventually devoted himself to portraiture entirely. [4] He was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design, New York, in 1878, and a full academician in 1880. [5] [6] Porter opened his studio, at 3 Washington Square North, [3] in New York in 1880. [1] Today, he is best known for his ...
Porter Lara's work is in public and private collections nationwide, and has been featured in Art 21 Magazine, CFile, Hyperallergic, and on PBS. In 2017, Artsy named her one of the artists shaping the future of ceramics. She is represented by form & concept in Santa Fe, and Simon Breitbard Fine Arts in San Francisco.