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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 - Artist Info
About Edward Sherriff Curtis: Keywords
Keywords (20)
Art Method
- •Itinerant Artist
- •Photography as Fine Art
Art Subject
- •Eskimo, Inuit Culture: Genre and Figure
- •Geronimo
- •Indians, Native American Specialty
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Totem Poles, Haida First Nations Culture
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
- •Colorado Before 1900
- •Hopi Reservation, Arizona
- •Hubbell Trading Post, Ganado, Arizona
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •Pacific Northwest Before 1900
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •J.L Hubbell Collection, Arizona