Eliot Porter

♂ *1901-1990 / United States

Works

Solo exhibitions

Birds

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth (US)
4 Jan 2020 – 10 May 2020
Vintage Works

Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe (US)
22 Jun 2019 – 27 Jul 2019
Eliot Porter's Nature

Portland Museum of Art, Portland (US)
22 Dec 2017 – 18 Mar 2018
Aline and Eliot Porter

Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe (US)
9 Sep 2017 – 28 Oct 2017
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Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (US)
3 Jul 2013 – 16 Aug 2013
Intimate Landscapes

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco (US)
5 Jul 2007 – 1 Sep 2007
Vintage Prints

Hasted Kraeutler, New York (US)
12 Oct 2006 – 23 Dec 2006
In the Realm of Nature

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
13 Jun 2006 – 17 Sep 2006
Landscapes East and West

Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg (US)
25 Sep 2002 – 12 Jan 2003

Group

Captured Earth

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
24 May 2024 – 18 Aug 2024

with Karl Blossfeldt, Alan Cohen, Barbara Crane, Odette England, Whit Forrester, Bertha E. Jaques, Tarrah Krajnak, Dakota Mace, Robert Mapplethorpe, Byung-hun Min, Liza Nguyen, John Opera …
Selections from the Collection

George Eastman Museum, Rochester (US)
29 Apr 2023 – 24 Sep 2023

with Larry Gianettino, Frederic E. Ives, Jeannette Klute, Elaine O’Neill, Melissa Ann Pinney
FRIENDS + FAMILY

Robert Mann Gallery, New York (US)
9 Jun 2022 – 19 Aug 2022

with Diane Arbus, Ellen Auerbach, Wynn Bullock, Horacio Coppola, Elijah Gowin, Mike Mandel, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ringl + Pit (Grete Stern + Ellen Auerbach), Aaron Siskind, Bert Stern, Henry Wessel
Curious Visions

Toward Abstract Photography

Denver Art Museum, Denver (US)
24 Oct 2021 – 30 Mar 2022

with Berenice Abbott, Uta Barth, Jaromir Funke, Jung-Jin Lee, Laura Letinsky, Man Ray , Joan Myers, Alison Rossiter, Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Keita Sugiura, Brett Weston …
Private Consignment Salon & Sale

Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta (US)
23 Sep 2020 – 24 Oct 2020

with Ansel Adams, Holly Andres, Diane Arbus, Andre Kertesz, O. Winston Link, Mary Ellen Mark, Irving Penn, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Mexico – Beyond the Wall

Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe (US)
23 Nov 2019 – 28 Dec 2019

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Ellen Auerbach, Manuel Carrillo, Aaron Siskind, Paul Strand
The Other Side of the Lens

Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe (US)
21 Sep 2019 – 9 Nov 2019

with Berenice Abbott, Gay Block, Brassai, John Dugdale, Barbara Morgan, Beaumont Newhall, Nancy Newhall, Arnold Newman, Ringl + Pit (Grete Stern + Ellen Auerbach), Willard van Dyke
Ansel Adams and the Photographers of the American West

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City (US)
1 Feb 2019 – 26 May 2019

with Ansel Adams, Alexander Gardner, Laura Gilpin, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Timothy O'Sullivan, Andrew J. Russell, Edward Weston, Brett Weston
Experiments in Motion

Photographs from the Collection

Philadelphia Museum Art, Philadelphia (US)
21 Apr 2018 – 19 Aug 2018

with Harry Callahan, Thomas Eakins, Harold E. Edgerton, Graciela Iturbide, An-My Le, David Lebe, Alison Rossiter, Lucas Samaras, Zoe Strauss
Compelled by Color

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego (US)
1 Nov 2016 – 26 Mar 2017

with Eve Arnold, Harry Callahan, Franco Fontana, Joel Meyerowitz
Photography: Technology + Art

curated by Emily Ackerman

Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York (US)
16 Nov 2016 – 14 Dec 2016

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Sarah Charlesworth, Larry Clark, Lucien Clergue, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, Donna Ferrato, Larry Fink, Ralph Gibson, Milt Hinton, Jerome Liebling, Joel Meyerowitz …
Photography and America’s National Parks

George Eastman Museum, Rochester (US)
4 Jun 2016 – 2 Oct 2016

with Ansel Adams, Binh Danh, Frank Jay Haynes, Mark Klett, Scott McFarland, Abelardo Morell, David Benjamin Sherry, Henry Bradford Washburn, Carleton E. Watkins, Byron Wolfe
Through the Lens

Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe (US)
23 Jan 2016 – 5 Mar 2016

with Georgia O'Keeffe, Todd Webb
Myth and memory

in recent American landscape photography

National Gallery, Canberra (AU)
12 Jan 2015 – 13 Jul 2015

with Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, Mark Klett
Summer Sale 2014

Alan Klotz Gallery, New York (US)
11 Jul 2014 – 1 Sep 2014

with Ansel Adams, Arthur Ann Segan, Eugene Atget, Brassai, Harry Callahan, Robert Capa, Carl Chiarenza, Václav Chochola, Edward S. Curtis, Andreas Feininger, Lewis Hine, Andre Kertesz …
American Vision

Photographs from the Collection of Owen and Anna Wells

Portland Museum of Art, Portland (US)
21 Dec 2013 – 23 Feb 2014

with Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Paul Strand
The Venice Biennale - 55th International Art Exhibition

The Encyclopedic Palace

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
1 Jun 2013 – 24 Nov 2013

with Kasper Akhoj, Victor Alimpiev, Yuri Ancarani, Uri Aran, Ed Atkins, Nikolay Bakharev, Morton Bartlett, Hans Bellmer, Neil Beloufa, John Bock, Roberto Cuoghi, Enrico David …
In Focus : Picturing Landscape

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
22 May 2012 – 7 Oct 2012

with Ansel Adams, Virginia Beahan, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Imogen Cunningham, William A. Garnett, John Beasley Greene, Charles Marville, Clifford Ross, Toshio Shibata, Edward Weston
40 Exceptional Photographs - 40th Anniversary Exhibition

Afterimage Gallery, Dallas (US)
24 Sep 2011 – 15 Nov 2011

with Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Peter Calvin, Mark Citret, Mitch Dobrowner, Yousuf Karsh, William Lesch, Elliott McDowell, Arnold Newman, Willy Ronis, George Tice
In Focus: The Tree

The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (US)
8 Feb 2011 – 3 Jul 2011

with Eugene Atget, William Eggleston, Simryn Gill, Gustave Le Gray, Myong Ho Lee, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Carleton E. Watkins
Beyond COLOR

Color in American Photography, 1950-1970

Bruce Silverstein, New York (US)
16 Sep 2010 – 23 Oct 2010

with Harry Callahan, Marie Cosindas, Ernst Haas, Saul Leiter, Marvin E. Newman, Ruth Orkin, Arthur Siegel, Pete Turner
A Radiant Land

Etherton Gallery, Tucson (US)
2 Mar 2010 – 29 May 2010

with Jack Dykinga
True to Life: Color Photography, 1860-1960

Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
7 Sep 2007 – 27 Oct 2007

with Harry Callahan, James Doolittle, Giorgio Sommer, Karl F. Struss
The Earth As It Was

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
5 May 2007 – 3 Sep 2007

with Ansel Adams, William Clift
American Photographers: Fine Prints

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tôkyô (JP)
11 Jan 2006 – 10 Feb 2006

with Robert Adams, Ansel Adams, Dick Arentz, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Linda Connor, Imogen Cunningham, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Andre Kertesz, O. Winston Link, Sally Mann, Richard Misrach …
Mavericks of Color: Photographs from the Collection

Philadelphia Museum Art, Philadelphia (US)
30 Jul 2005 – 27 Nov 2005

with Harry Callahan, William Christenberry, William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Joel Meyerowitz, Andreas Samaras, Stephen Shore, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz
A Sense of Abstraction

Alan Klotz Gallery, New York (US)
19 May 2005 – 2 Jul 2005

with Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Edward Quigley, Arthur Siegel, Aaron Siskind, Minor White
Abstraction in Photography

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
2 May 1951 – 4 Jul 1951

with Ansel Adams, Allen Arbus, Diane Arbus, Ferenc Berko, Erwin Blumenfeld, Mathew B. Brady, Josef Breitenbach, Alexey Brodovitch, Francis Bruguire, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alvin Langdon Coburn …
Color Photography

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
9 May 1950 – 4 Jul 1950

with Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Erwin Blumenfeld, Josef Breitenbach, Harry Callahan, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harold Corsini, Ralph Crane, Ted Croner, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Loomis Dean …

Events

Fine Photographs

A Country Called California: The Collection of Stephen White

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)
7 Feb 2026 – 11 Feb 2026

with Ansel Adams, Larry Clark, Imogen Cunningham, Sante D'Orazio, Lewis Hine, Yousuf Karsh, Weegee
SITE SANTA FE INTERNATIONAL

Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe (US)
27 Jun 2025 – 13 Jan 2026

with Korakrit Arunanondchai, Ali Cherri, Sky Hopinka, David Horvitz, Saodat Ismailova, Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Wael Shawky, Penny Siopis, Ana Vaz
100 Fine Photographs

Swann Auction Galleries, New York (US)
16 Feb 2006

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Edward S. Curtis, Frantisek Drtikol, Harold E. Edgerton, Robert Frank, Alexander Gardner …
Photographs

Bonhams New York, New York (US)

with Slim Aarons, Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eugene Atget, Richard Avedon, Peter Beard, Ruth Bernhard, Julie Blackmon, Margaret Bourke-White, Rene Burri, Harry Callahan, Julia Margaret Cameron …