At the Trysting Place
1921
Medium
Photogravure, plate 416 from "The North American Indian, Volume 12" (1922)
Dimensions
Image: 38.9 × 29 cm (15 3/8 × 11 7/16 in.); Paper: 42 × 32 cm (16 9/16 × 12 5/8 in.); Mount: 57.1 × 46 cm (22 1/2 × 18 1/8 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50041
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 ...