Passing a Dreaded Point [Plate 359]
![Passing a Dreaded Point [Plate 359] by Edward Sheriff Curtis](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/passing-a-dreaded-point-plate-359-nga-133014.webp)
Medium
photogravure on cream wove paper
Dimensions
image: 38.7 x 27.5 cm (15 1/4 x 10 13/16 in.) sheet: 56.7 x 45.4 cm (22 5/16 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
2004.163.5.29
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...