Eliot Porter
Tidal Marsh, Mount Desert Island, Maine

Tidal Marsh, Mount Desert Island, Maine

© 1990, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

Tidal Marsh, Mount Desert Island, Maine
Tidal Marsh, Mount Desert Island, Maine
ArtistAmerican, 1901–1990
PrinterNew York
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Tidal Marsh, Mount Desert Island, Maine
  • from the portfolio In Wildness
DateAugust 4, 1965, printed 1981
Place depictedMount Desert Island, Maine, United States
MediumDye imbibition print
DimensionsImage: 12 1/4 x 16 in. (31.1 x 40.6 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/4 x 16 in. (31.1 x 40.6 cm)
Mount: 20 1/16 × 24 in. (51 × 61 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mike and Mickey Marvins
Object number2013.721
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Special Collections
Object Type
ProvenanceAuction, before 1996; purchased by Michael Marvins and Michele Marvins, Houston, before 1996; given to MFAH, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed in pencil, recto, lower right on mount below image: Eliot Porter

Stamped in black ink, verso, lower left corner: This portfolio // ELIOT PORTER // IN WILDNESS // has been published in an edition // of 300. This dye-transfer print // was made by Berkey K & L, New York. // Copyright 1981 by Daniel Wolf Press, Inc and // Eliot Porter

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