2 EDWARD CURTIS Sioux & Flathead Chiefs 1900s
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1. EDWARD S. CURTIS Gray Bear - Yanktonai, 1908. 7.3x3.9" photogravure on 12.5x9.5" Holland Van Gelder paper. Intended for Volume 3 [The Sioux] of The North American Indian but never bound so no stitching marks. Printed below image on print recto: Gray Bear - Yanktonai / From Copyright Photograph 1908 by E.S. Curtis. Inscribed in pencil on print verso: ESC/8516.
2. EDWARD S. CURTIS Not Indian - Flathead, 1910. 7.1x5.1" Photogravure on 12.5x9.5" Japan Vellum paper from Volume 7 Kutenai, Flathead, Spokane, Columbia River, Washington, Oregon Plateau Tribes. Printed below image on print recto: Not Indian - Flathead / From Copyright Photograph 1910 by E.S. Curtis. Circular 1" Art Institute Chicago Reyerson Library stamp in blue ink on print verso; inscribed in pencil: ESC/8720.
Sold at Swanns auction in 1979.
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. Between 1898 and 1928, working in collaboration with many tribal members, Curtis created an ethno-historical account combined with photographic notions of character portraiture, environmental portraiture and classical romanticism as well as straight documentary views. He published 20 octavo volumes with around 75 prints per volume each accompanied with a larger portfolio of usually 36 hand pulled photogravures. The North American Indian (1906-1928) is considered the most lavish and elegantly illustrated set of photographic books ever produced. This lot has original vintage photogravures from this publication made under Curtis's supervision.
2. EDWARD S. CURTIS Not Indian - Flathead, 1910. 7.1x5.1" Photogravure on 12.5x9.5" Japan Vellum paper from Volume 7 Kutenai, Flathead, Spokane, Columbia River, Washington, Oregon Plateau Tribes. Printed below image on print recto: Not Indian - Flathead / From Copyright Photograph 1910 by E.S. Curtis. Circular 1" Art Institute Chicago Reyerson Library stamp in blue ink on print verso; inscribed in pencil: ESC/8720.
Sold at Swanns auction in 1979.
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. Between 1898 and 1928, working in collaboration with many tribal members, Curtis created an ethno-historical account combined with photographic notions of character portraiture, environmental portraiture and classical romanticism as well as straight documentary views. He published 20 octavo volumes with around 75 prints per volume each accompanied with a larger portfolio of usually 36 hand pulled photogravures. The North American Indian (1906-1928) is considered the most lavish and elegantly illustrated set of photographic books ever produced. This lot has original vintage photogravures from this publication made under Curtis's supervision.
Condition
1. Very good. Mild wear. Some handling marks, margin waviness to paper.
2. Excellent. Minor wear.
2. Excellent. Minor wear.
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2 EDWARD CURTIS Sioux & Flathead Chiefs 1900s
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