Oreton Clark House, Amherst College, 1970

Provenance

The artist

Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Hertzfeld, gift from above, 1970

Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts, gift from above, 1981–1984

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, New York

Exxon Corporation

Sale, Heritage, Dallas, Texas, November 17, 2023, lot 67055

Exhibited

Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts, Memories of Fairfield Porter, April 7–May 7, 1981

Literature

Memories of Fairfield Porter (Amherst, MA: Mead Art Museum, 1981), no. 4.

John T. Spike, Fairfield Porter: An American Classic (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992), 227, 300.

Joan Ludman, Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2001), 262, no. L729.

Related Works

Amherst Campus No. 1, 1969, oil on canvas, 62¼ 46¼ inches; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York

Pelham Hills, 1970, oil on canvas, 26 x 28 inches; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York

Note: Fairfield Porter taught at Amherst College from 1969–1970, and he made a number of paintings depicting the campus throughout this period.