{"title":"Edward S. Curtis Photography","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"131019-14-moose-hunter-cree","title":"Edward Curtis Vintage Photogravure Japan Vellum- Moose Hunter - Cree","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVisible Image 12 3\/4\" x 16\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrame 23\" x 26\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eNote: Non-glare glass made photos difficult.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eVintage Photogravure, Portfolio 18, Plate 623, The North American Indian, on Japan Vellum, circa 1926\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Pl. 623). Boston: Suffolk Engraving Company, (1907-1930). Photogravure after Edward Curtis, printed by the Suffolk Engraving Company, Japan paper. Very good condition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A breath-taking image from \"The North American Indian, \" the grandest illustrated work ever produced in the United States, the most important illustrated work on Native Americans, and the single greatest book in Western Americana. Only the double-elephant folio edition of Audubon's \"The Birds of America\" surpasses Curtis's in its massive ambition and beauty of execution. \"...Because of the singular combination of qualities with which he has been blessed, and because of his extraordinary success in making and using his opportunities...(Curtis) has been able to do what no other man has ever done; what, as far as we can see, no other man could do. He is an artist who works out of doors and not in a closet. He is a close observer, whose qualities of mind and body fit him to make his observations out in the field, surrounded by the wild life he commemorates. He has lived on intimate terms with many different tribes of the mountains and the plans. He knows them as they hunt, as they travel, as they go about their various avocations on the march and in camp. He knows their medicine men and their sorcerers, their chiefs and warriors, their young men and maidens. He has not only seen their vigorous outward existence, but has caught glimpses, such as few white men ever catch, into that strange spiritual and mental life of theirs; from whose inner most recesses all white men are forever barred....\" (Theodore Roosevelt, Foreword to Volume I)\"Cree hunters are masters of the art of imitating, by means of a birch bark trumpet, the call of a moose of either sex, and thus luring within gunshot an animal seeking a mate during the rutting season.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Antique American Indian Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45877106802853,"sku":"131019-14","price":2250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/6071\/5685\/files\/s725348264778838518_p1110_i7_w1200.jpg?v=1757345081"},{"product_id":"191223-11-edward-s-curtis-the-vanishing-race-silvertone-original-frame","title":"Edward S. 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Curtis’ images vividly detail his journey through life and exploration of various American cultures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antique American Indian Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45877264777381,"sku":"191223-11","price":10500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/6071\/5685\/files\/s725348264778838518_p5132_i1_w900.jpg?v=1757345780"},{"product_id":"250513-01-edward-s-curtis-maid-of-dreams","title":"Edward S Curtis; Maid of Dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdward S Curtis (1868-1952)\u003cbr\u003eTitle: Maid of Dreams, 1904\u003cbr\u003eOrotone - Goldtone - Curt-tone\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImage 13.5\"h x 10.5W\u003cbr\u003eFrame: 18.75\"h x 15.875\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVintage Goldtone in the original Curtis Studio frame; Had Frame restoration 2010\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal Stickers preserved on back\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The price of this Curt-tone is $15.00 The North American Indian\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginal Description on Sticker\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Maid of Dreams\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis picture was made as one of the illustrations for Marah Ellis Ryan's novel \"The Flute of the Gods.\" The subject is the semi-mythical \"Blue Bird Girl\" standing by the stream. In the distance she hears a step and quickly reached for the deerskin blanket to throw around her body. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMr. Curtis in making his monumental collection of Indian pictures has attempted to visit and picture all important tribes of the United States, British Columbia and Alaska. The basic purpose of this collection of pictures is their use as illustrations for \"The North American Indian,\" a work of twenty volumes and twenty supplementary portfolios of pictures. 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