Wolf - Apsaroke
Edward S. Curtis
1908
Medium
Photogravure, plate 142 from "The North American Indian, Volume 4" (1909)
Dimensions
Image/paper: 40.1 × 29.9 cm (15 13/16 × 11 13/16 in.); Mount: 55.8 × 45 cm (22 × 17 3/4 in.)
Classification
photogravure
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50062
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 ...