The Whaler-Clayoquot
Edward S. Curtis
1915
Medium
Photogravure, plate 394 from "The North American Indian, Volume 11" (1916)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 39.8 × 28.2 cm (15 11/16 × 11 1/8 in.); Mount: 56 × 45.8 cm (22 1/16 × 18 1/16 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
49944
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 ...