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Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Wood Road
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (American, 1907 - 1975)
Date1969
MediumOil on masonite
DimensionsOverall: 22 × 17 7/8 in. (55.9 × 45.4 cm) Frame (Coved Frame): 29 × 24 in. (73.7 × 61 cm) Frame (Strip Frame): 23 × 18 7/8 × 1 1/2 in. (58.4 × 47.9 × 3.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Peter B. Fischer, Class of 1963
Object number2022.13
Not on view
DescriptionShadowy woodland scene depicting shrubbery in the foreground with trees in the distance.
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Additional Details

Exhibition History Huntington, NY, Heckscher Museum; Flushing, NY, Queens Museum;
Montclair, NJ, Montclair Art Museum, "Fairfield Porter Retrospective Exhibition,"
1974 - 1975, no. 27, illustrated in the catalogue p. 8

Southampton, NY, Parrish Art Museum; Waterville, ME, Colby College Museum
of Art; "Fairfield Porter's Maine," 1977, no. 4

Chicago, IL, The Arts Club of Chicago, "Fairfield Porter: Paintings and Works on
Paper," 1984, no. 22

New York, NY, Hirschl & Adler Modern, "Fairfield Porter, 1907-1975," 1985, no.
32

Chicago, IL, Compass Rose Modern and Contemporary Art, "Fairfield Porter,"
1987

New York, NY, Hirschl & Adler Modern, "Fairfield Porter, 1907-1975," 1992

Farmington, ME, Tom Veilleux Gallery, "Fairfield Porter: Oil Paintings and
Watercolors," 1995

Birmingham, MI, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, "Fairfield Porter," 1998
Provenance 2022: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art); [With] Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY; [With] Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY; [With] Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, NY; [With] Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY; Estate of the artist; Anne E.C. Porter (his wife); by descent to the previous owners; Sotheby’s, New York, June 9, 2016 [lot 217].
Markings Label, verso center: [Questroyal Fine Art, LLC / Important American Paintings / Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) / Wood Road, 1969 / Oil on masonite / 22 x 18 inches / Signed and dated upper right: Fairfield Porter 69; on verso: / WOOD ROAD / OIL '69 22 x 18 / 903 Park Avenue, Third Floor, New York, NY 10075/ T: 212.744.3586 - F: 212.585.3828 - EMAIL: gallery@questroyalfineart.com]

Label, verso top stretcher rail: [APG 3532D]
Published References Eva Ingersoll Gatling, "Fairfield Porter Retrospective Exhibition" (Huntington, NY: The Heckscher Museum of Art, 1974), 8, no. 27.

Helen Harrison, "Fairfield Porter’s Maine" (Southampton, NY: Parrish Art Museum, 1977), no. 4.

"Fairfield Porter: Paintings and Works on Paper" (Chicago: The Arts Club of Chicago, 1984), no. 22.

Hirschl & Adler Modern, "Fairfield Porter, 1907–1975" (New York: Hirschl & Adler, 1985), no. 32.

Joan Ludman, “Checklist of the Paintings by Fairfield Porter,” in John T. Spike, Fairfield Porter: An American Classic (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992), 300.

Joan Ludman, "Fairfield Porter: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels" (New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2001), 257, L709.
Signature Top right corner (scratched into paint): "Fairfield Porter 69"
Inscribed Verso, center (on masonite): "S-6313 / 12163 co / 12163 co / WOOD ROAD / OIL '69 22 x 18"

Verso, top stretcher rail (stamped): "K / PHOTO S-6313"

Verso, top left center of stretcher: "40"
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