Eliot Porter • Glen Canyon Portfolio – Pg. 39 Print 12. Pledge pool, Hall’s Creek

A Glen Canyon Portfolio

Pg. 39 Print 12. Pledge pool, Hall’s Creek

by

Eliot Porter

Height: 9″
Width: 9″
Prints:
Medium: Lithograph on Kromkote paper

Currency: Pg. 39 Print 12. Pledge pool, Hall’s Creek

Glen Canyon, into which they now floated… Is completely different. As beautiful as any of the canyons, it is almost absolutely serene, an interlude for a pastoral flute. Except for some riffles in the upper section it’s river is wide, smooth, deep, spinning in dignified whirlpools and moving no more than seven or eight miles an hour. It’s walls are the monolithic Navajo sandstone, sometimes smooth and vertical, rounding off to domes at the rims, sometimes undercut by great arched caves, sometimes fantastically eroded by slit side canyons, alcoves, grotto’s green with redbud and maiden- hair and with springs of sweet water.
– Wallace Stegner