The New York Times reviews an exhibition of works---unvarnished, unfinished or in progress---painted by Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) on Long Island from the 1940s until his death.

On view at Southampton's Parrish Museum, the show looks at how Porter adeptly blurred the lines between abstraction and representational painting in his figurative works. Even his completed paintings have a looseness and spontaneity...