EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS. Evening in the Desert - Navaho, 1904. 5.5x7.5" photogravure on 9.5x12.5" Holland Van Gelder paper from Volume 1 of The North American Indian. Printed below image on print recto: Evening in the Desert - Navajo / From Copyright Photograph 1904 by E.S. Curtis. Inscribed in pencil on print verso: ESC/8723 / 1-90-170-VG.

Silhouetted Native American Indian riders in the darkening evening light in this wonderful Edward Curtis landscape.

Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) created a legacy that was a monumental visual tour de force, an ethnographic, heroic and theatrical record of the American Indian and their recollected and imagined way of life before the white man. His mastery of the grandest pictorial style and technique in his photogravures, orotones and silver and platinum prints was rivaled only by the most elegant prints of Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz. During this time he was the most famous photographer in the country, just as Ansel Adams later in the 20th Century.

Excellent. Minor wear and waviness.