Hollow Horn Bear
Edward S. Curtis
1907
Medium
Photogravure, plate 82 from "The North American Indian, Volume 3" (1908)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 40.2 × 30.1 cm (15 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.); Mount: 56.5 × 46.7 cm (22 1/4 × 18 7/16 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49941
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 ...