The Whaler - Makah
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 38.9 × 28.7 cm (15 5/16 × 11 5/16 in.) sheet: 55.3 × 45.4 cm (21 3/4 × 17 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2018.177.181
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...