Red Osier, Near Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Eliot Porter

negative April 18, 1957; print 1981

Dye imbibition print

J. Paul Getty Museum

A dense thicket of shrubs with red branches. The leaves have all fallen and a bare white tree trunk is visible beyond the shrubs. Thoreau, Henry David and Eliot Porter. In Wildness is the Preservation of the World: From Henry David Thoreau, introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch (San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1962), unpaginated.