A black-and-white photograph of a White man on a ladder setting up lights on a scaffold next to a tree.

Eliot Porter Setting Up Equipment for Photographing a Lewis Woodpecker

Laura Gilpin (1891-1979)

Date

1952
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 9 7/16 x 7 3/4 in.
Sheet: 9 15/16 x 8 1/8 in.
Inscriptions

Verso:
u.c. to u.r. in black ink: Eliot Porter \ setting up equipment for photographing \ a Lewis woodpecker
u.c. [stamp]: LAURA GILPIN \ BOX 1173, SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
u.c. in black ink: New Mexico 1952
l.c. in black ink: Please Return [underlined]
Collection Name

Eliot Porter Collection
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Bequest of Eliot Porter
Accession Number

P1990.59.88
Copyright

©1979 Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Eliot Porter’s Birds

December 21, 2019–July 5, 2020

While he is internationally celebrated for his colorful renderings of the natural world, Eliot Porter’s Birds highlights Porter's equal, career-long focus on photographing birds through more than thirty photographs and archival objects with the artist’s extensive writings.

Location: Off view

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