On the Beach - Nakoaktok [Plate 339]
![On the Beach - Nakoaktok [Plate 339] by Edward Sheriff Curtis](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/on-the-beach-nakoaktok-plate-339-nga-132997.webp)
Medium
photogravure on cream wove paper
Dimensions
image: 39 x 27.2 cm (15 3/8 x 10 11/16 in.) sheet: 56.5 x 45.4 cm (22 1/4 x 17 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mitchell and Nancy Steir
Accession Number
2004.163.5.10
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...