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Katherine Anne Porter Holdings in Special Collections

In October 1936, Porter and Pressly returned to the United States, with Pressly traveling to Washington to look for work and Porter settling for a time in Pennsylvania. This visit was highly productive, as she completed two of the "short novels" that appeared in Pale Horse, Pale Rider in 1939. After a three-month reunion with Porter in New York City, Pressly found a temporary position in South America; this led to their permanent separation and eventual divorce. In September 1937, Porter moved to New Orleans.

April 1938 brought both divorce from Pressly and another marriage. With Robert Penn Warren and his wife Cinina as witnesses, Porter married Albert Erskine. However, Porter and Erskine were separated within two years, and in June 1940 Porter went to live at Yaddo, the artists' colony in upstate New York. She had gained a reputation as one of the country's best writers following the publication of Pale Horse, Pale Rider (1939), which included the title work, "Noon Wine," and "Old Mortality."

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Katherine Porter

American painter (1940s–2024)

For persons of a similar name, see Katherine Porter (disambiguation).

Katherine Porter (1941 or 1944 – April 22, 2024) was an American visual artist. Porter is considered one of the most important contemporary artists associated with Maine.[1] She resisted categorization.[2][3] Through the medium of painting and drawing her canvases convey the conflict inherent in life.[promotion?] She expressed her ideas with a visual vocabulary that was "geometric and gestural, abstract and figurative, decorative and raw, lyric and muscular."[1]

Porter was shown twice in the Whitney Biennial and had solo exhibitions at the Knoedler Gallery in London, the Nina Nielsen Gallery in Boston, and the Andre Emmerich and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries in New York. Her work was added to the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[4]Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Tel Aviv Museum in Jerusalem.[

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Katherine Anne Porter
by
Darlene Harbour Unrue, Christine Grogan
  • LAST REVIEWED: 29 November 2022
  • LAST MODIFIED: 29 November 2022
  • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199827251-0081

  • Auchincloss, Louis. “Katherine Anne Porter.” In Pioneers and Caretakers: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists. By Louis Auchincloss, 136–151. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1965.

    An admiring overview of Porter’s work regarded in a larger context; focuses especially on the Miranda cycle and Ship of Fools; calls Porter “the American Flaubert” (p. 136).

  • Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr. Katherine Anne Porter’s Artistic Development: Primitivism, Traditionalism, and Totalitarianism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1993.

    An analysis of Porter’s fiction in the context of her life at points of “upheavals” to which the critic traces changes in her artistic vision; a series of provocative conclusions with which some Porter scholars will disagree, but the work overall is valuable for the focus on the evolution of Porter’s subjects and techn

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