Photographs

Edward S. Curtis

'Mósa-Mohave'

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April 13, 08:01 PM GMT

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10,000 - 15,000 USD

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Edward S. Curtis

1868 - 1952

'Mósa-Mohave'

large-format photogravure, Plate 61 from The North American Indian: Portfolio 2 (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Edward S. Curtis, 1908), the printed title, plate number, photographer's copyright, and printer's credit in the margin, framed, 1903, printed in 1908

image: 15 ¼ by 11 ¾ in. (39.4 by 29.8 cm.)

frame: 31 by 27 in. (78.7 by 68.6 cm.)

Florence Curtis Graybill and Victor Boesen, Visions of A Vanishing Race (Boston, 1976), pl. 8 and back cover

Barbara A. Davis, Edward S. Curtis: The Life and Times of a Shadow Catcher (San Francisco, 1985), p. 103

Christopher Cardozo, ed., Native Nations: First Americans as seen by Edward S. Curtis (Boston, 1993), reverse dust jacket

Laurie Lawlor, Shadow Catcher: The Life and Work of Edward S. Curtis (New York, 1994), p. 70

Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian, The Complete Portfolios (Köln, 1997), p. 84

Christopher Cardozo, ed., Sacred Legacy: Edward Curtis and the North American Indian (New York, 2000), p. 30

Edward Curtis: The Master Prints (Salem: Peabody Essex Museum, 2001), pl. 53