On the Shore of the Lake - Kutenai
1910
Medium
Photogravure, plate 251 from "The North American Indian, Volume 7" (1911)
Dimensions
Image: 27.2 × 38.8 cm (10 3/4 × 15 5/16 in.); Paper: 32.2 × 41.9 cm (12 11/16 × 16 1/2 in.); Mount: 43.9 × 55.2 cm (17 5/16 × 21 3/4 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50026
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 ...