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Edward Curtis Photography

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.
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Artist: Edward Curtis
The Vanishing Race
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in ink on image with the E.S. Curtis Seattle or recto Vintage platinum print Image 10 x 13", Paper 10 x 13", Mat 16 x 20" For over thirty years, photographer Edward Curtis tr...
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Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Photography

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Platinum

The Vanishing Race

Edward Curtis
The Vanishing Race, 1904

$7,500
Chief of the Desert
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed and dated in pen on recto, Vintage platinum print image- 7 7/8 x 5 7/8", paper- 12 1/2 x 11", mat- 20 x 16"
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Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Photography

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Platinum

Chief of the Desert

Edward Curtis
Chief of the Desert, 1904

$12,000
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 Photography

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Photogravure

BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME - PALM CANYON
BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME - PALM CANYON

Edward Curtis
BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME - PALM CANYON, 1924

$975 Sale Price
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Qahatika Girl, The North American Indian, Edward S. Curtis, Photogravure, 1907
By Edward Curtis
Located in Phoenix, AZ
QAHATIKA GIRL Portfolio 2, plate no. 56 THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN BY EDWARD S. CURTIS SHIPPING CHARGES INCLUDE SHIPPING, PACKAGING & INSURANCE Considered by art collectors as extr...
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Early 20th Century Academic Edward Curtis Photography

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Photogravure

Qahatika Girl, The North American Indian, Edward S. Curtis, Photogravure, 1907
Qahatika Girl, The North American Indian, Edward S. Curtis, Photogravure, 1907

Edward Curtis
Qahatika Girl, The North American Indian, Edward S. Curtis, Photogravure, 1907

$17,500
Luzi Girl Papago The North American Indian, Edward S. Curtis, Photogravure, 190
By Edward Curtis
Located in Phoenix, AZ
LUZI GIRL PAPAGO, 1907 Portfolio 2, Plate 53 THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN BY EDWARD S. CURTIS Image size 15.5 x 10 1/4 inches, Excellent condition. This is an original photogravur...
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Early 20th Century Academic Edward Curtis Photography

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Photogravure

Luzi Girl Papago The North American Indian, Edward S. Curtis, Photogravure, 190

Edward Curtis
Luzi Girl Papago The North American Indian, Edward S. Curtis, Photogravure, 190

$6,000
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 Photography

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Photogravure

Aged Pomo Woman [Plate 488]
Aged Pomo Woman [Plate 488]

Edward Curtis
Aged Pomo Woman [Plate 488], c. 1924

$610
Hopi Snake Dancer in Costume
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed and labeled on recto. Vintage platinum print Image 4.5 x 5.75", Mount 5 x 7.25", Mat 16 x 20"
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Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Photography

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Platinum

Hopi Snake Dancer in Costume

Edward Curtis
Hopi Snake Dancer in Costume, 1900

$9,500
Hopi Snake Dancer in Costume
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed on recto. Vintage platinum print Image 5.75 x 7.5", Mount 6 x 8", Mat 16 x 20"
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Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Photography

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Platinum

Hopi Snake Dancer in Costume

Edward Curtis
Hopi Snake Dancer in Costume, 1904

$9,500
The Apache
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed on recto Platinum Print Image - 16.25 x 12.25
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Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Photography

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Platinum

The Apache

Edward Curtis
The Apache, 1906

$15,000
Zuni Governor, 1900
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
negative number "110-00" in plate lower left Platinum print Image 16" x 12", Matted 24" x 20"
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Early 1900s Edward Curtis Photography

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Platinum

Zuni Governor, 1900

Edward Curtis
Zuni Governor, 1900

$9,500
The Piki Maker, Hopi
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in ink on recto Vintage platinum print 13 1/4 x 10 inches
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Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Photography

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Platinum

The Piki Maker, Hopi

Edward Curtis
The Piki Maker, Hopi, 1906

$5,000
A Painted Tipi
By Edward Curtis
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Goldtone photograph on glass printed with permission from his foundation in 1999-2000 from his negatives. Frames were reproduced in the same styl...
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Early 20th Century Realist Edward Curtis Photography

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Glass

A Painted Tipi
A Painted Tipi

Edward Curtis
A Painted Tipi, 1999-2000

$3,000
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 Photography

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Platinum

American Indian

Edward Curtis
American Indian, 1905

Price Upon Request
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Medicine Crow
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Portrait of Coastal Salish Woman, Lake Lummi
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Silver photographic print of a Coastal Salish woman portrait by Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952), printed by Jean Antony du Lac (1929-2002), from the original photogravure copper plates. Signed "Anthony du Lac" lower right. Print 165/300, circa 1980-82. Displayed in a wood frame; shipped without glass. Image, 13"L x 17.75"H. Edward Sheriff Curtis used a process he mastered of creating orotones, which are photographs on glass. Jean Antony du Lac's work is considered that of a preservationist. Jean Antony de Lac was born in France and raised in New York City, he moved west to San Francisco in 1957. Jean was an accomplished photographer whose published credits include Life Magazine and the San Francisco Examiner. He spent many years reproducing Edward S. Curtis' images of North American Indians; and he mastered the process of creating orotones, which are photographic reproductions on glass. Jean's orotones appeared on the walls of the Smithsonian as well as the White House during the Carter and Reagan administrations. A preservationist, his reproduction of Edward Muybridge...
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Waiting in the Forest—Cheyenne
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A Hopi Man
By Edward Curtis
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Titled with description on front of the print. Acquired from a gallery in Sedona Arizona by a Private Collector with Weston Gallery, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA. Custom wood frame will be ...
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A Hopi Man
A Hopi Man

Edward Curtis
A Hopi Man

H 15.25 in W 11.25 in
The Vanishing Race
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Vintage platinum/palladium print Paper 10 x 12 inches; Image 6 x 8 inches Signed in ink on image with the E.S. Curtis Seattle copyright blindstamp Tipped in heavy brown textured pape...
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The Vanishing Race

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The Vanishing Race, 1904

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