Classic Photographs

Classic Photographs

The Collection of Jay I. Kislak: Sold to Benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Edward S. Curtis

The Vanishing Race, Navaho

Lot Closed

October 5, 03:22 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Edward S. Curtis

1868 - 1952

The Vanishing Race, Navaho


orotone, signed in the negative, in the original Curtis studio frame, 1904

image: approximately 10 ½ by 13 ½ in. (26.7 by 34.3 cm.)

frame: 16 by 19 in. (40.6 by 48.3 cm.)

Edward S. Curtis, The North American Indian: The Complete Portfolios (Taschen, 1997), p. 36

Mick Gidley, Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Incorporated (Cambridge, 1998), fig. 3, p. 23

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