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.to
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Artist: Edward Curtis
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"
Category
Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Photography
Materials
Platinum
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"
Category
Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Photography
Materials
Platinum
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
Materials
Photogravure
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"
Category
Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Photography
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Platinum
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
Materials
Glass
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
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
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Considered by art collectors as extr...
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Early 20th Century Academic Edward Curtis Photography
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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...
Category
1920s American Realist Edward Curtis Photography
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Photogravure
$975 Sale Price
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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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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
Category
Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Photography
Materials
Platinum
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"
Category
Early 1900s Edward Curtis Photography
Materials
Platinum
The Apache
By Edward Curtis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed on recto
Platinum Print
Image - 16.25 x 12.25
Category
Early 20th Century Edward Curtis Photography
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Platinum
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
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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.
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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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Native American War Chief -- Offering To The Sun: San Ildefonso
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"Waiting in the Forest—Cheyenne," 1910
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Edward Curtis photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Edward Curtis photography available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Edward Curtis in intaglio, photogravure, platinum print and more. Not every interior allows for large Edward Curtis photography, so small editions measuring 6 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Marion Post Wolcott, Arthur Rothstein, and Deborah Eddy. Edward Curtis photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $610 and tops out at $975, while the average work can sell for $793.