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Edward Curtis Art

American, 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. His life's work was to record the faces and lifestyles of the Indians before they vanished forever beneath the settling of the continent by the white man. He photographed his subjects from the deserts of the Southwest to the ice floes of the Arctic, recording with his camera and pen the look and the culture of more than eighty tribes. It was an achievement both poignant and monumental.
(Biography provided by Robert Azensky Fine Art)
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Artist: Edward Curtis
Sia Buffalo Dancer
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edward Sheriff Curtis. Sia Buffalo Dancer. Vintage Photogravure on Japanese tissue. North American Indian Project. "The Buffalo dance of the Keres is almost exactly the same as th...
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1920s Edward Curtis Art

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Photogravure

A Hopi Mother, Plate 403, 1921
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edward Sheriff Curtis. Vintage Photogravure. North American Indian Project. Print area is in good condition, edges of white border of paper has some handling creases.
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Early 1900s Edward Curtis Art

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Photogravure

Cleaning Wheat – San Juan, 1905
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edward Sheriff Curtis. Vintage Photogravure. North American Indian Project.
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Early 1900s Edward Curtis Art

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Photogravure

A Family Group – Noatak, Plate 717
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edward Sheriff Curtis. Vintage Photogravure. North American Indian Project.
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Early 1900s Edward Curtis Art

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Photogravure

Girl and Jar, San Ildefonso, New Mexico
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edward Sheriff Curtis. Vintage Photogravure. North American Indian Project. Print area is in good condition, white border of paper has some wear.
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Early 1900s Edward Curtis Art

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Photogravure

Grinding Medicine – Zuni, Plate 606
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edward Sheriff Curtis. Vintage Photogravure. North American Indian Project.
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Early 1900s Edward Curtis Art

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Photogravure

BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME - PALM CANYON
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
EDWARD CURTIS (1868 - 1952) BEFORE THE WHTE MAN CAME - PALM CANYON, 1924 Photogravure. Printed title along with 1924 copyright line. Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co., Cambridge Mass...
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1920s American Realist Edward Curtis Art

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Photogravure

Aged Pomo Woman [Plate 488]
By Edward Curtis
Located in New York, NY
This photogravure is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
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1920s Other Art Style Edward Curtis Art

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Photogravure

American Indian
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Vintage platinum/palladium print Signed with the photographer's embossed stamp on recto For over thirty years, photographer Edward Curtis traveled the length and breadth of North America, seeking to record with images the traditional life of its vanishing indigenous inhabitants. No other photographer has created a larger oeuvre on the theme of Native American...
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Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Art

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Platinum

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Portrait of Coastal Salish Woman, Lake Lummi
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Waiting in the Forest—Cheyenne
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A Hopi Man
A Hopi Man
H 15.25 in W 11.25 in
The Vanishing Race
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