ELIOT
PORTER
Am. 1901-1990

We are pleased to offer Eliot Porter's

1989 complete boxed set of dye-transfer prints, Certain Passages,      (ed. 109/300).  This complete portfolio of 8 dye-transfer prints comes in the original clamshell box with the printed title, which measures 25.5 x 21.5 x 1.75 in. (64.77 x 54.61 x 4.45 cm.). The photographs have never been framed or hung and very rarely viewed or exposed to light.  Please contact us for the price of this complete set.

The portfolio is comprised of the following works:
Gray's Arch, Red River Gorge, Kennedy, 1968

Apples, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, 1942 (one of Porter's first published color photographs)

Bracken and Hawkweed, Michigan, 1973
Foxtail Grass, Great Sand Dunes, Colorado, 1976
Edge of the Colorado River at Mile 122, Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1967
Water-streaked Wall, Warm Springs Canyon, Utah, 1965
Aspens, Colorado, 1959

Asters and Raspberries, Oak Island, Maine, 1973.

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Eliot Porter is one of the most important photographers of the 20th century and is known for his landscapes and vibrantly colored images of birds which elevated color and nature photography to the status of fine art. Encouraged early in his career by his brother, Fairfield Porter, and photographers Ansel Adams and Alfred Stieglitz, Porter decided to make photography his career. 

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Certain Passages (complete boxed portfolio of 8 works), 1989

Dye-transfer prints
16 x 12.5 in. (40.64 x 31.75 cm.) each
Signed in pencil on mount recto (each)

Edition 109/300
Daniel Wolf Press, Inc., pub.

Provenance:
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Private Collection, Maine

 

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