Eliot Porter

(New York: Daniel Wolf Press, 1989, an edition of 300), a portfolio of 8 dye-transfer prints, each mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, individual wrappers with letterpress title and date, framed, 1942-76, printed in 1989; together with the printed title/plate list/colophon, with edition '51' in pencil. Folio, gray linen clamshell box with gilt-lettered leather label

These photographs are in generally excellent condition. The colors remain vibrant and saturated with no apparent fading. There is some minor soiling on the reverse of the mounts. Overmats are affixed with tape on the reverse of each mount. The plates are as follows: Gray's Arch, Red River Gorge, Kentucky, 1968 Apples, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine, 1942 Asters and Raspberries, Oak Island, Maine, 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 Bracken and Hawkweed, Michigan, 1973 Two of the wrappers exhibit foxing. The cover of the portfolio case is very faintly soiled. There is one intermittent scratch on the leather label with a few attendant abrasions.
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