![Fairfield Porter - South Main Street, Spring [c.1960]](http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2950/15357923825_8a6297765f_o.jpg)
Anne Elizabeth Channing Porter, aside from her role as Fairfield Porter’s wife and model, was a serious and well-regarded poet for most of her life. Her anthology of poems, published in the 1990s when she was 83, won critical acclaim and made her a National Book Award finalist. She and Fairfield married when she was 20, in 1932; the marriage produced five children and lasted for over forty years, until his death in 1975. The couple moved to Southampton, on Long Island’s South Fork, in 1949. Porter, an intellectual and poet himself, was known primarily as a writer and art critic at that point. It took many years before his work achieved public recognition in the 1950s.
[Sotheby’s, New York - Oil on masonite, 40.6 x 61 cm]
