Curtis Edward

Edward S. Curtis Photogravure, "Saguaro Harvest - Pima"


Photogravure after an original photograph by Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) entitled "Saguaro Harvest - Pima" handsomely matted and framed behind glass. Originally appearing in The North American Indian, Volume 2, "The Pima. The Papago. The Qahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa. The Walapai. The Havasupai. The Apache-Move, or Yavapai.," plate no. 40. Printed along the bottom, from left to right, with the work's title; "From Copyright Photograph 1907 by E.S. Curtis;" and "Photogravure John Andrew & Son." The sepia-colored print depicts two women collecting fruit from a monumental desert cactus. Displayed behind cream fabric matting and glass in an attractive mahogany-finished frame. Minor paper wavering and uneven mat burn. A few light frame scuffs, else very good to near fine. Norwalk, Connecticut framers label verso. Not examined out of frame. Sight size: 11.625" x 15.5", overall frame size: 23.25" x 28" x 1".


The North American Indian, originally commissioned and funded by financier J. Pierpont Morgan, was published as a 20-volume work encompassing 1,500 Curtis photographs of various American Indian tribes. Curtis's anthropologist contributors provided analysis and context for his photographs.


Edward Sheriff Curtis is best known as a photographer, but he was also an accomplished ethnologist. His late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century portraits of American Indians, as well as the wax cylinder recordings, early motion pictures, transcriptions, and field notes he collected, documented their lifeways during a time when indigenous peoples were believed to be "vanishing."


John Andrew & Son, located in Boston, Massachusetts, had a professional association with Curtis. The company was active in the early 1900s.

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