Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Edward S. Curtis
Son of the Desert
Lot Closed
October 7, 02:35 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Edward Curtis
1868 - 1952
Son of the Desert
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, blindstamped and signed and numbered '182-04' in the negative, framed, 1904, printed before 1942
image: 16 ⅜ by 11 ¾ in. (41.6 by 29.8 cm.)
frame: 21 ½ by 17 in. (54.6 by 43.2 cm.)
Ralph W. Andrews, Curtis’ Western Indians (New York, 1962), p. 61
Florence Curtis Graybill and Victor Boesen, Visions of A Vanishing Race (Boston, 1976), pl. 3
Christopher Cardozo, ed., Native Nations (Boston, 1993), p. 95
Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian, The Complete Portfolios (Köln, 1997), p. 55
Christopher Cardozo, ed., Sacred Legacy: Edward Curtis and the North American Indian (New York, 2000), p. 90
From 1893 to 1942, brothers Stephen Bartlett Foster and John Roy Foster designed and manufactured frames in the Arts and Crafts style in Boston.