David Porter American 1912 -2005 Abstract collage oil and collage on canvas 30.5 x 24.5 in. Signed and dated 1975 on the lower right Signed, dated 16/4/75 on verso Framed. David Porter had thirty-two one-man exhibitions in the US and Europe. His awards include The Carnegie International, Guild Hall Regional Artists, First Award Provincetown Arts Festival and Gold Medal, first prize Italy's President Gronchi. In 1964 he was invited to be artist-in-residence at Dartmouth. He taught figure drawing at Cooper Union, was Guild Hail's only art instructor for four years, recipient of Beaux-Arts Award NYC and has received a grant from The National Institute of Arts and Letters. Of the seven New York one-man exhibitions, two received rave reviews, one of which was a sell-out of twenty-three paintings.