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PORTER, ELIOT (1901-1990) Portfolio titled "In Wildness" with 10 elegant photographs of natural scenes from across the United States. Dye-transfer prints, each approximately 16x12 1/2 inches (40.7x31.8 cm.), and the reverse, each with Porter's signature, in pencil, on mount recto; each housed in individual folders with the printed title and date. Atlas-sized clamshell box with a gilt-lettered brown leather title label; the colophon with Porter's signature and the edition number 180 (of 300), in ink; contents loose as issued. 1953-81; printed 1981
This portfolio was exhibited in Favorite Photographs from the Forbes Collection, The Forbes Galleries, New York, October 30, 2009-August 28, 2010.
"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 sandune. 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.
