Middle Calf-Piegan
1900
Medium
Photogravure, plate 202 from "The North American Indian, Volume 6" (1911)
Dimensions
Image: 39.1 × 26.3 cm (15 7/16 × 10 3/8 in.); Paper: 45.2 × 29.6 cm (17 13/16 × 11 11/16 in.); Mount: 56 × 46.5 cm (22 1/16 × 18 5/16 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50059
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 ...