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94 PORTER, ELIOT (1901-1990)
Portfolio titled “Certain Passages.” Containing 8 beautiful photographs of the American wilderness.
Dye-transfer prints, sizes approximately 15 3/4 x121/4 and 16x12 1/2 inches (40x31.1 and 40.6x31.8
cm.), and the reverse, each with Porter’s signature, in pencil, on mount recto; and each housed in
an individual folder with the printed title. Elephant folio, clamshell box with a gilt-lettered red
leather title label; the colophon, with the number 139 (of 300), in pencil; contents loose as issued.
1942-1976; printed 1989 [5,000/7,500]
“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-streakedWall,Warm Springs Canyon, Utah,” 1965 * “Aspens, Colorado,” 1959 * “Bracken
and Hawkweed, Michigan,” 1973.