Two Strike
Edward S. Curtis
1907
Medium
Photogravure, plate 78 from "The North American Indian, Volume 3" (1908)
Dimensions
Image: 39.8 × 30.1 cm (15 11/16 × 11 7/8 in.); Paper: 44.4 × 33 cm (17 1/2 × 13 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50089
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 ...