EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS Pl. 197 An Idle Hour - Piegan, 1910 11x15" Photogravure on 18x22" Japan Vellum paper from Portfolio 6 of The North American IndianI The Cheyenne and Piegan ASG# ESC/8651

A painterly view of women meditating on the beauty of nature.

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