Kaiak Frame, Nunivak
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View on museum website →Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 13.8 × 19.1 cm (5 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.) sheet: 24.1 × 31.4 cm (9 1/2 × 12 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the UBS Art Collection
Accession Number
2023.30.48
About the Artist
Edward Sheriff Curtis
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...