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A Hopi Mother — Edward S. Curtis

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Written by: Anya FernándezSenior Specialist · Modern & Contemporary Art
Miniature Painting · Catalogue no. 132019
Edward S. Curtis

A Hopi Mother

StatusReference work · Not for sale
Held byArt Institute of Chicago
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Artist / MakerEdward S. Curtis
Date1921
Culture / OriginUnited States
MediumPhotogravure, plate 403 from "The North American Indian, Volume 12" (1922)
DimensionsImage/paper: 39.1 × 26 cm (15 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Mount: 55.2 × 45.1 cm (21 3/4 × 17 13/16 in.)
DepartmentPhotography and Media
TypePhotograph
About the Artist

Edward S. Curtis American, 1868 - 1952 Edward Sheriff Curtis, born near White Water, Wisconsin, was a well-established commercial photographer before he undertook his best known work shortly before the turn of the century. Working first as photographer for the Edward H. Harriman expedition in Alaska (1899), he later secured the endorsement of Theodore Roosevelt and the support of J. P. Morgan for an extensive anthropological and photographic study of Native Americans. Curtis's work from 1906 -- 20 resulted in… Full biography →

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Image & data: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0 / Public Domain.

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