Portfolio IV, Plates 111-118, 120-149
1905
Comprehensive portfolio documentation reveals the scope of Curtis's ambitious project to create a complete visual record of Plains Indian cultures through multiple photogravure plates.
- Medium
- photogravure
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Spotted works by Edward S. Curtis
Artists in conversation
Karl Moon
American · b. 1879
Moon worked contemporaneously with Curtis creating sepia toned photogravure portraits of Native American peoples of the Southwest and Plains with the same ethnographic documentary intention and formal portrait composition style.
Roland Reed
American · b. 1864
Reed produced large scale photographic and photogravure documentation of Plains and Woodland Native American cultures using the same warm sepia tones and posed ethnographic portrait approach that defines this Curtis portfolio.
Adam Clark Vroman
American · b. 1856
Vroman was a pioneering documentary photographer who systematically recorded Native American peoples and their cultural practices in the early twentieth century using the same ethnographic photographic methodology and tonal print qualities seen in Curtis's portfolio work.
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