Edward Sheriff Curtis
1868 – 1952
BORN IN
Whitewater, Wisconsin
KNOWN FOR
Historical photographs of Native American culture
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.
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Edward Sheriff Curtis
(1868 – 1952)
The North American Indian, Plates from the Plains Portfolios, (Folio size with 36 Plates and Octavo size with 75 Plates)
, c. 1980
leather portfolios with photogravures on archival paper produced by the Classic Gravure Corporation
24 x 20 and 14 x 12 inches (portfolios)
Sold for: $20,400
Edward Sheriff Curtis
(1868 – 1952)
The North American Indian, Plates from the Southwest Portfolios, (Folio size with 36 Plates and Octavo size with 75 Plates)
, c. 1980
leather portfolios with photogravures on archival paper produced by the Classic Gravure Corporation
24 x 20 and 14 x 12 inches (portfolios)
Sold for: $20,400
