b>EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS Pl. 21 Chief Garfield - Jicarilla, 1904 15.75x12" Proof Photogravure on 23x18" Japan Vellum Paper from Portfolio 1 of The North American Indian ASG# ESC/7167. This Japan Vellum proof print does not have the Plate number, copyright information and title that was printed and it also has an additional 1" in the paper's vertical dimension

The caption for this plate reads: "Some years ago the Jicarillas were all officially given Spanish or English names. Many of them expressed a preference. This old man, who was head-chief of the tribe at the time, selected the designation Garfield."

A famous Edward Curtis portrait made of the Jicarilla Apache Chief Garfield wearing a full headdress.

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.

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 has lot has original proof vintage photogravure from this publication.

Very Good. Minor wear margin wear on top and bottom Chief Garfield Jicarilla written in hand below image in unknown hand.