1944 Photographs by Eliot Porter; National Audubon
Society, New York, New York
1946 Leaders in Photography: Eliot Porter; University of
Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, and traveling
1953 Birds in Color: Photographs of Eliot Porter; American
Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, and
traveling
1960 The Seasons: Color Photographs by Eliot Porter
Accompanied by Quotes from Henry David Thoreau;
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, and
traveling
1971 Photographs by Eliot Porter; Princeton University Art
Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
1973 Eliot Porter Retrospective; University of New Mexico
Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and traveling
1980 Intimate Landscapes; Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, New York
1987 Eliot Porter; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth,
Texas, and traveled to Bowdoin College Museum of
Art, Brunswick, Maine; Huntsville Museum of Art,
Huntsville, Alabama
1998 A Passion for Birds: Eliot Porter’s Photography; Amon
Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
2003 Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness; Amon Carter
Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Group Exhibitions
1938 Fifth International Salon of Photography; Pictorial
Photographers of America, American Museum of Nat-
ural History, New York, New York
1939 Sixth International Salon of Photography. Centennial
Exhibition of Photography 1839–1939; Pictorial Photo-
graphers of America, American Museum of Natural
History, New York, New York
1940 Sixty Photographs; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
1940 Seventh International Salon of Photography; Pictorial
Photographers of America, American Museum of Nat-
ural History, New York, New York
1946 The Camera’s Eye; Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of
New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1950 The Second Country Life International Exhibition of
Wildlife Photography; Central Hall, Westminster, Lon-
don, England
1955 This Is the American Earth; LeConte Lodge, Yosemite
Valley, California
1957 Madonnas and Marketplaces: Mexico in Color; Lime-
light Gallery, New York, New York
American Spirit; Kongresshalle, West Berlin, Ger-
many, and traveled to Amerika Haus, Essem, West Ger-
many; and Amerika-Haus, Munich, West Germany
1960 Photography at Mid-Century; George Eastman House,
Rochester, New York
1962 An Exhibition of Photographs: Laura Gilpin, Eliot
Porter, Todd Webb; Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of
New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1963 Spectrum; George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum,
Springfield, Massachusetts, and traveled to Kansas State
Teachers College, Emporia, Kansas; University of Ore-
gon, Eugene, Oregon; Atlanta Public Library, Atlanta,
Georgia; Paterson State College, Wayne, New Jersey;
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana,
Illinois; Hill School, Pottstown, Pennsylvania; Art
Museum, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1963 The Photographer and the American Landscape; Mu-
seum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1965 Selections from Photography in the Fine Arts Collec-
tion; World’s Fair, Eastman Kodak Pavilion, New York,
New York
1975 The Eye of the Beholder; International Center of
Photography, New York, New York
Photography in America; Whitney Museum of Amer-
ican Art, New York, New York
1976 The Land: Twentieth Century Landscape Photographs;
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, and
traveled to National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh,
Scotland; Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland;
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales
Antarctica;59thStreet Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1977 The Great West: Real/Ideal; Fine Arts Department,
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
1978 Alfred Stieglitz and‘‘An American Place;’’ Zabriskie
Gallery, New York, New York
The Art of Seeing: Photographs from the Alfred Stie-
glitz Collection; Museum of Modern Art, New York,
New York
Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since
1960 ; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York,
and traveling
1980 Color Photographs by Marie Cosindas and Eliot Porter;
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Color as Form; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C. and traveled
1986 Retrospective: Eliot Porter and Beaumont Newhall;
Photo Gallery International, Tokyo, JapanSelected Publications
Gleick, James.Nature’s Choice. New York: Viking, 1990.
Porter, Eliot.The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the
Colorado. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1966/1963.
Porter, Eliot.Forever Wild: The Adirondacks. Blue Moun-
tain Lake. York: Harper & Row, 1966.
Porter, Eliot.Summer Island: Penobscot Country. San Fran-
cisco: Sierra Club, 1966.
Porter, Eliot.Baja California and the Geography of Hope.
Text by Joseph Wood Krutch. San Francisco: Sierra
Club, 1967.
Porter, Eliot.Appalachian Wilderness: The Great Smokey
Mountains. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1970.
Porter, Eliot.Birds of North America: A Personal Selection.
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1972.
Porter, Eliot.Moments of Discovery: Adventures with Amer-
ican Birds. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1977.
Porter, Eliot.Antarctica. New York: E. P. Dutton and
Company, 1978.
Levi, Peter.The Greek World. New York: E. P. Dutton and
Company, 1980.
Porter, Eliot.Maine. Boston: Little, Brown and Co.; A New
York Graphic Society Book, 1986.
Porter, Eliot.The West. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1988.
Porter, Eliot.Vanishing Songbirds: The Sixth Order: Wood
Warblers and Other Passerine Birds. Boston: Bulfinch
Press and Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
Porter, Eliot, and Peter Matthiessen.The African Experi-
ence. The Tree Where Man Was Born. New York: E. P.
Dutton and Company, 1972.
Porter, Eliot, et al. ‘‘In Wildness is the Preservation of the
World,’’Selections and San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1962.PORTER, ELIOT