Holds The Eagle - Hidatsa
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 18.6 × 11.9 cm (7 5/16 × 4 11/16 in.) sheet: 21.3 × 13.4 cm (8 3/8 × 5 1/4 in.) mount: 32.1 × 24.1 cm (12 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2018.177.186
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...