A Hopi Mother
Edward S. Curtis
1921
Medium
Photogravure, plate 403 from "The North American Indian, Volume 12" (1922)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 39.1 × 26 cm (15 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Mount: 55.2 × 45.1 cm (21 3/4 × 17 13/16 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49957
About the Artist
Edward S. Curtis · 1868–1952
Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) was an American photographer and ethnographer whose monumental project "The North American Indian" — a forty-volume illustrated work documenting over eighty Native American tribes — is one of the most ambitious photographic enterprises ever undertaken. Born near Whitewater, Wisconsin, he grew up in Minnesota and established a portrait studio in Seattle, Washington, in ...