Photographs

Eliot Porter

'Glen Canyon'

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April 7, 05:07 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Eliot Porter

1901 - 1990

'Glen Canyon'

(New York: Daniel Wolf Press, 1980, an edition of 250), a portfolio of 10 dye-transfer prints, each mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, most with the portfolio and copyright stamp on the reverse, each in individual wrappers with letterpress title and date, 1961-71, printed in 1980; together with the printed title, plate list, and colophon, signed and editioned '220' in ink. Folio, taupe linen clamshell box with gilt-lettered leather label

images: each approximately 16 by 12 ½ in. (40.6 by 31.8 cm.) or the reverse

portfolio case: 25 ¼ by 21 in. (64.1 by 53.3 cm.)

Photography Collectors, Inc., Milwaukee, 1981

By descent to the present owner

The plates are as follows:

1. 'Coyote Gulch. Escalante River, August 17, 1971'

2. 'Cliff. Moonlight Creek, San Juan River, May 23, 1962'

3. 'Reflections in pool. Indian Creek, Escalante River, September 22, 1965'

4. 'Redbud in bloom. Hidden Passage, Glen Canyon, April 10, 1963'

5. 'Green Reflections in Stream. Moqui Creek, Glen Canyon, September 2, 1962'

6. 'Amphitheater. Davis Gulch, Escalante Basin, May 12, 1965'

7. 'Escalante River outwash. Glen Canyon, September 2, 1962'

8. 'Tamarisk and grass, river's edge. Glen Canyon, August 1961'

9. 'Waterslide from above. Long Canyon, September 21, 1965'

10. 'Dungeon Canyon. Glen Canyon, August 29, 1961'