Cowichan Girl
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 40.1 × 26.3 cm (15 13/16 × 10 3/8 in.) sheet (visible): 43.3 × 28.2 cm (17 1/16 × 11 1/8 in.) mount: 55.9 × 45.9 cm (22 × 18 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2018.177.177
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Edward Sheriff Curtis · 1868–1952
Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952) was born on February 19 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, into a struggling family led by his father, Reverend Asahel Curtis, a Civil War veteran and farmer, and mother Ellen Sheriff. Raised in poverty amid his father's postwar frailties, Curtis left school after sixth grade and apprenticed as a photographer in a St. Paul, Minnesota, studio at age seventeen in 1885. The...