Spruce Trees in Fog, Great Spruce Head Island, Maine

1954

Eliot Porter

Associated Names
Eliot Porter

Artist, American, 1901 - 1990

This image shows a dense forest with tall, slender trees closely spaced together. The scene is covered in mist, obscuring the horizon and creating depth as the trees stretch into the distance. The bare branches twist intricately against the fog. The color palette consists of muted blues and grays, contrasting with the darker tree trunks and the earthy ground. The mist gives the image a serene and mysterious ambiance, softening details in the distance and highlighting the texture and structure of the trees.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    dye imbibition print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 27.31 × 21.27 cm (10 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
    mount: 47.63 × 37.47 cm (18 3/4 × 14 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.119

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Eliot Porter, Santa Fe, NM; Beaumont Newhall, New York; (Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., Santa Fe, NM); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on mount in graphite: Eliot Porter; on verso, center stamped in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH / BY / ELIOT PORTER; by unknown hand, top right in blue ink: 5857 B

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