Isleta Kiva
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 13.9 × 18.5 cm (5 1/2 × 7 5/16 in.) sheet: 16.8 × 20.2 cm (6 5/8 × 7 15/16 in.) mount: 24 × 31.7 cm (9 7/16 × 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
2018.177.183
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...