EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS Ceremonial Mask, Nunivak 1928 5.5x7.4" Photogravure on Tissue paper Holland Van Gelder mount from Volume 20 of The North American Indian, paper 9.5x12.5" ASG# ESC/8531

Curtis ceremonial portraits with medicine men and dancers are among his most sought after prints.

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. Mild wear margins.