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...invocation of natural beauty. But scratch its agreeable surface, and there is flint below, and an unquenchable heat of pictorial intelligence. Or so one realizes, looking at the retrospective of Porter's work from the 1940s to his death in 1975, now at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York. Curated by the art historian William Agee, it is an excellent introduction to a still much underrated artist...
Porter was largely self-taught. From the time he found his feet as an artist -- around the mid-1950s -- he stayed away from Manhattan, preferring to paint in Southampton and on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine, which his family owned. This didn't put him out of contact with "the scene." Porter was an exceptionally gifted critic who, in Art News and the Nation, produced some of the most lucid and cant-free essays on modern art in general, and Willem de Kooning's work in particular, ever penned by an American. But he knew his own mind...
This championship follows the success of last fall's Crimson croquet team, which also defeated the Bull dogs in the title game in Southampton, New York...
...Harvard men's volleyball team won the Vassar Invitational Tournament over the weekend, coming back from a 2-0 game deficit to defeat Long Island University-Southampton in the finals...
...championship finals were held in Southampton, Long Island, N.Y., as a culmination to the 1991-92 croquet season...