Description:

Edward S. Curtis
(1868 - 1952)
The North American Indian Portfolio XV, 1926
36 photogravures on Japanese Gampi tissue with original Van Gelder overmats
signed in the plate below image: E. S. Curtis

Featuring the Southern California, Shoshoneans, Dieguenos, Plateau Shoshonean and Washo tribes of California.

LIMITED EDITION: This Portfolio is from set #96, printed on handmade Japanese gampi tissue paper, quarto, original ¾ brown crushed levant by H. Blackwell of Boston, over beige linen-covered boards, original gilt lettered, with photogravure plates by Suffolk Engraving Company of Boston after photographs by Edward S. Curtis, edited by Frederick Webb Hodge, Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, field research conducted under the patronage of J. Pierpont Morgan.

PORTFOLIO: 36 large format photogravures, including a List of Plates reference that is hand letterpress printed on hand-made paper. Loose bound in a hand-made, 3-flap portfolio.

    Provenance:
  • Edward S. Curtis Studio
    William Henry Moore
    The Moore Memorial Library
    The Christopher G. Cardozo Collection, 2001
  • Dimensions:
  • Folio: 23 x 19 in. (58.42 x 48.26 cm.), Prints: 18 x 22 in. (45.72 x 55.88 cm.)
  • Artist Name:
  • Edward S. Curtis
  • Exhibited:

  • A Mono Home, Plate 533
    Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian (176 print exhibit), 2000
    Edward S. Curtis: 100 Masterworks, 2016
  • Medium:
  • 36 photogravures on Japanese Gampi tissue with original Van Gelder overmats
  • Condition:
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