Object Record
Images
Metadata
Artist |
Porter, Eliot |
Title |
Red Tree, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, October 7, 1967 |
Medium |
Vintage dye-transfer print |
Date |
1967 |
Description |
Eliot Porter (Winnetka, Illinois 1901-1990 Santa Fe, New Mexico) Red Tree near Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, October 7, 1967, 1967 Vintage dye-transfer print 20 x 15 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 2012 purchase with funds provided by KMA Collectors Circle Porter is considered one of the greatest American landscape photographers of the twentieth century. His innovative use of dye-transfer printing enabled him to reproduce the actual colors of nature with greater depth and luminosity than through other means. As a result, Porter was instrumental to color photography's growing acceptance as a fine art form. Porter visited the Smoky Mountains several times between 1967 and 1969 and took dozens of vibrant photographs in preparation for his highly-acclaimed monograph Appalachian Wilderness (1971). Porter did not publish his photographs in editions, and as a result his prints are exceedingly rare. His photographs have been collected in depth by The Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Amon Carter Museum. |
Catalog Number |
2012.05.02 |
Search Terms |
Dye transfer prints Color photographs Photographs Prints Paper Trees |
Credit line |
Purchase with funds provided by KMA Collectors Circle |