Flying Shield Yanktonai

Edward S. Curtis


Marked Down $565.00: Gallery Price $965.00

Title: Flying Shield Yanktonai
Artist: Edward S. Curtis
Medium: Photogravure on tissue paper
Image size: 7 1/4" height X 4 1/2" width
Frame: 100% rag mat board, regular glass, distressed wood molding
Frame size: 18" height X 16" width
Date of creation: "From Copyright Photograph 1908 by E.S. Curtis" printed below image
Condition: Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed. Archival matting
Provenance: Obtained approximately 20 years ago, at which time it was framed archivally for a gentleman's office. CS

About The Flying Shield Yanktonai

This man's hair is braided so tight. His gaze is so steady. He represents a glimpse at the past.

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"Born in 1868 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis became a well-known photographer and ethnologist. 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."

excerpted from AskArt.com Edward S. Curtis The Life and Times of a Shadow Catcher by Barbara A. Davis tells the story of Mr. Curtis' photographic foray, as does Edward Sheriff Curtis Visions of a Vanishing Race by Florence Curtis Graybill (Edward S. Curtis' daughter) and Victor Boesen.

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