"White Calf-Piegan" plate 189, circa 1900
Type:Photograph
Year:c. 1900
Size:11.00" x 16.00"
Medium:Photogravure
Signed:Unavailable
Notes:
This is from the portfolio photogravure from the North American Indian. Featured in our 6/27 auction.
Edward Sherriff Curtis ART FOR SALE
1868 Whitewater, Wisconsin - 1952 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Historical photographs of Native American culture.
EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (1868 - 1952). Born in 1868 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis became one of America's finest photographers and ethnologists. Beginning in 1896 and ending in... Read full biography
EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (1868 - 1952). Born in 1868 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis became one of America's finest photographers and ethnologists. Beginning in 1896 and ending in 1930, Curtis photographed and documented every major Native American tribe west of the Mississippi,... Read full biography
EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (1868 - 1952). Born in 1868 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis became one of America's finest photographers and ethnologists. Beginning in 1896 and ending in 1930, Curtis photographed and documented every major Native American tribe west of the Mississippi, taking over 40,000 negatives of eighty tribes. For thirty years, he devoted his life to an odyssey of photographing and documenting the lives and traditions of the Native people of North America. His... Read full biography
EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (1868 - 1952). Born in 1868 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis became one of America's finest photographers and ethnologists. Beginning in 1896 and ending in 1930, Curtis photographed and documented every major Native American tribe west of the Mississippi, taking over 40,000 negatives of eighty tribes. For thirty years, he devoted his life to an odyssey of photographing and documenting the lives and traditions of the Native people of North America. His photographs had an immense impact on the national imagination and continue to shape the way we see Native life and culture. Edward's father, Reverend Johnson Curtis, had returned from the Civil War penniless and debilitated, and young Curtis and his... Read full biography
EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (1868 - 1952). Born in 1868 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis became one of America's finest photographers and ethnologists. Beginning in 1896 and ending in 1930, Curtis photographed and documented every major Native American tribe west of the Mississippi, taking over 40,000 negatives of eighty tribes. For thirty years, he devoted his life to an odyssey of photographing and documenting the lives and traditions of the Native people of North America. His photographs had an immense impact on the national imagination and continue to shape the way we see Native life and culture. Edward's father, Reverend Johnson Curtis, had returned from the Civil War penniless and debilitated, and young Curtis and his three siblings grew up in poverty. The family moved to Cordova, Minnesota soon after his birth, where his father continued his vocation as an... Read full biography
Edward Sherriff Curtis - Art for Sale (13 available)
Flathead Camp on the Jocko River
Type:Photograph
Size:11.00" x 14.00"
Medium:Photograph
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Goldtone photograph, original frame. Ref: #23199
The Vanishing Race
Type:Photograph
Size:8.00" x 10.00"
Medium:Photograph
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Goldtone photograph, original frame. Ref: #23069
Stsimaki(Reluctant-To-Be-Woman) Blood
Type:Photograph
Size:18.00" x 13.00"
Medium:Photogravure
Signed:Unsigned
The North American Indian SOLD $1,000,000
Type:Photograph
Year:1907-30
Size:30.00" x 20.00"
Medium:Photograph
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
Comprising 20 volumes of text & images and 20 supplemental portfolios of large plates The North American Indian “An absolutely unmatched masterpiece of visual anthropology, and one of the most thorough, extensive and profound photographic works of all time.”
A Chief of the Desert
Type:Photograph
Year:1904
Size:7.63" x 5.63"
Medium:Photograph
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Silver bromide photograph. Ref: #22835
New
A Walpi Man
Type:Photograph
Year:1903
Size:15.63" x 11.00"
Medium:Other
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Platinum photograph. Ref: #22834
Women of the Desert
Type:Photograph
Year:1906
Size:11.00" x 14.00"
Medium:Photograph
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Goldtone photograph, original frame. Ref: #22738
Wisham Fisherman
Type:Photograph
Year:c. 1909
Size:14.00" x 11.00"
Medium:Photograph
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Goldtone photograph, original frame. Ref: #22774
Lucero-Santo Domingo
Type:Photograph
Size:18.00" x 13.00"
Medium:Photogravure
Signed:Unsigned
Edition:Plate 557
A Zuni Governor
Type:Photograph
Size:7.63" x 4.88"
Medium:Photograph
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Platinum photograph. Ref: #23117
The Three Chiefs
Type:Photograph
Size:12.00" x 16.00"
Medium:Photograph
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Platinum photograph. Ref: #23068
New
The Piki Maker
Type:Photograph
Year:1906
Size:14.00" x 11.00"
Medium:Photograph
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Goldtone photograph in original frame. Ref: #21775