Dean Allen Porter

Background

Dean Allen Porter was born on June 13, 1939, in Gouverneur, New York, United States, to Arnold W. Porter and Gertrude V. Porter.

Education

In 1961, Porter received a Bachelor of Arts, in 1966, he also received a Master of Arts in art history and a Ph.D. in 1974 from the State University of New York in Binghamton.

Career

From 1966 to 1994, Dean Porter was an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame. In 1994, he became a full professor there and retired in 2001. Porter also worked at The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame as the curator from 1966 to 1974, and its director from 1974 to 1999.

Dr. Porter has been a Samuel H. Kress Fellow, has lectured all over the United States, and has numerous publications to his credit. His recent research has been focused on the Taos Art Colony and in 1990 he published Victor Higgins: An American Master. Dr. Porter spearheaded the nationally touring exhibition, Taos Art and Their Patrons and co-authored the accompanying book by the same title.

Achievements

• Dean A. Porter is best known as a historian and specialist on the Taos Society of Artists with a special focus on Walter Ufer and Victor Higgins. He is also a museum curator who has published various museum catalogs and a Postwar & Contemporary artist.

Works

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• book

  • Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950

    (The northern New Mexico village of Taos, shaped through t...)

    1999
  • Janos Scholz, Musician and Collector

    (Much has been written about Janos Scholz as 'cellist, con...)

    1980
  • Ivan Meštrović, 1883-1962 1983
  • Selected Works from The Snite Museum of Art 1987
  • Victor Higgins: An American Master 1991

• painting

  • Taos Pueblo Rain Storm

    1997

  • O'Keeffe Turquoise

    1999

  • Road to Ranchos

    1995

  • New Mexico Panorama

    2000

  • Chama River out O’Keeffe Way

    2001

  • Taos Pueblo

    1976

Membership

Porter was a member of the College Art Association, American Association of Museums, Association of Art Museum Directors. He also was a member of the board of directors at Southwest Art History Council, member of museum council at Harwood Foundation, member of an advisory council at Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, member of the advisory board at Indiana University Art Museum and member of the national advisory council at Valparaiso Museum of Art.

Personality

Dean Porter's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $125 USD to $4,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2016 the record price for this artist at auction is $4,000 USD for Taos Pueblo Rain Storm, sold at Austin Auction Gallery in 2019.

Connections

On July 27, 1963, Porter married Carol DuBrava. He has two daughters: Kellie Ann and Tracie Ann Porter.

Father:

Arnold W. Porter

Mother:

Gertrude V. Porter

Spouse:

Carol DuBrava

Daughter:

Tracie Annual Porter

Daughter:

Kellie Ann Porter

References

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