Frame of Peyote Sweat-Lodge
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 13.9 × 18.8 cm (5 1/2 × 7 3/8 in.) sheet: 17 × 20.8 cm (6 11/16 × 8 3/16 in.) mount: 24.1 × 31.7 cm (9 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2018.177.184
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...