Boston. Museum of Fine Arts. FAIRFIELD PORTER: Realist Painter in an Age of Abstraction. Essays by J. Ashbery and K. Moffett. 107 pp. include over 50 plates and illustrations, a few in color. Large 4to, wraps. 1983.

Spring, Justin. FAIRFIELD PORTER: A Life in Art. 384 pp., 62 color and b&w plates. 8vo, cloth. New Haven,Yale University Press, 2000.
This biography of Porter and analysis of his art functions simultaneously as a portrait of important artistic and literary circles in New York shortly after World War II.

Ludman, Joan. FAIRFIELD PORTER: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels. Essays by Rackstraw Downes, William C. Agee and John T. Spike; 400 pp., almost 1,000 illustrations, 119 in colour. 4to, cloth. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 2001.
A monumental publication identifying every known painting, watercolor and pastel by Fairfield Porter (1907-1975), with accompanying essays examining the artist's life and the historical context of his work.