Guide to the Katherine Porter collection, 1975-1996, undated
Restricted. Access only with the permission of Ms. Porter.
Katherine Porter Collection, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine.
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Katherine Porter is an American artist born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1941. Porter graduated from Colorado College in 1963 and has received an honorary doctorate from Colby College. She has shown in the Whitney Biennial and has 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 is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Tel Aviv Museum in Jerusalem.
This collection contains correspondence with Mickey Walker and others, a brochure of Porter's exhibitions, news releases, and editorials that feature Katherine Porter (New Boston Review, June 1989 LIFE, Maine Sunday Telegram, The Republican Journal, Fall 1996 Mount Holyoke College Art Museum Newsletter).
Articles and Interviews
Correspondence
Exhibition Materials