Clayoquot Girl, 1915 - Original Photogravure by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)

Clayoquot Girl, 1915by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)Original photogravure on Holland Van Gelder Paperfrom The North American Indian Portfolio 11, Plate 37222" high x 18" wide (paper size), 30.5" high x 25" wide framedarchival matting in custom made Arts and Craft style framemint conditionIn the summer of 1900, among the Piegan on the Montana plains, Edward Curtis witnessed what some believed would be the final Sun Dance ceremony. Curtis was profoundly moved by the experience, and it inspired the vision for his life’s work—a massive photo-ethnographic undertaking to present a “broad and luminous picture” of Native American life.Edward Sheriff Curtis was born in 1868 in rural Wisconsin. His family moved to Minnesota, and, in 1885, at age seventeen, Curtis became an apprentice photographer at a studio in St. Paul. Two years later the Curtis family moved to Seattle. Curtis purchased a new camera and began his professional career as a studio portraitist.In 1895, Curtis met and photographed P