DAY 2-SUMMER ADVERTISING & COLLECTIBLES JULY 11TH
Thu, Jul 11, 2024 09:30PM EDT
Lot 296
"A BEAR TOTEM AT MASSETT" BY EDWARD CURTIS
Sold for
$170
Sold Price excludes BP
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Original vintage photogravure on Japanese vellum by listed Northwest artist, Edward Curtis (WA, CA, 1868 - 1952). Title inscribed in plate "A Bear Totem at Massett", from copyright photograph 1915 by ES Curtis. Art measures 7.25" h x 5.5" w matted & mounted in a frame measuring 15.5" x 14".
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Edward Sheriff Curtis became one of America's finest photographers and ethnologists and invented gold and silver processes, which later became known as 'goldtones' and 'silver tints'. Beginning in 1896 and ending in 1930, Curtis photographed and documented every major Native American tribe west of the Mississippi, taking over 40,000 negatives of eighty tribes. For thirty years, he devoted his life to an odyssey of photographing and documenting the lives and traditions of the Native people of North America. His photographs had an immense impact on the national imagination and continue to shape the way we see Native life and culture.