Desert Rovers - Apache
Edward S. Curtis
1903
Medium
Photogravure, plate 3 from "The North American Indian, Volume 1" (1907)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 26.5 × 37.5 cm (10 7/16 × 14 13/16 in.); Mount: 46 × 56.5 cm (18 1/8 × 22 1/4 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50068
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 ...