May 27, 2021 - Sale 2570

Sale 2570 - Lot 286

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
ELIOT PORTER (1901-1990)
Portfolio entitled In Wildness. With 10 elegant photographs of natural scenes from across the United States. Dye transfer prints, the images measuring approximately 16x12 1/2 inches (40.7x31.8 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 20x24 inches (50.8x61 cm.), each with Porter's signature, in pencil, on mount recto, and an Eliot Porter: In Wildness Edition of 300 Portfolio hand stamp and a Daniel Wolf, Eliot Porter copyright hand stamp, on verso; each print housed in individual folders with the printed title and date. Elephant folio-sized clamshell box with a gilt-lettered brown leather title label; the colophon with Porter's signature and the edition notation 180, in ink; contents loose as issued. ONE OF 300 NUMBERED COPIES. (New York): Eliot Porter with Daniel Wolf Press, 1953-81; printed 1981

Pool in a brook. Pond Brook, near Whiteface, New Hampshire, October 1953 * Maple leaves and pine needles. Tamworth, New Hampshire, October 3, 1956 * Red osier. Near Great Barrington, Massachusetts., April 18, 1957 * Path in woods. Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, 1981 * Hawkweed in meadow. Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, 1968 * Tidal marsh. Mount Desert Island, Maine, August 4, 1965 * Sunflower and sand dune. Colorado, 1959 * Sculptured rock. Marble Canyon, Arizona, 1967 * Maple sapling and rock. Passaconaway, New Hampshire, 1953 * Sunset behind Las Tres Virgenes Volcano. Near Mezquital, Baja, California, August 12, 1966