Join The Collection to save, track, and explore works like this.

Cleveland Museum of Art

Spotted

Edward S. Curtis — Portfolio I, Plate 23: Jicarilla Matron
Edward S. Curtis

Portfolio I, Plate 23: Jicarilla Matron

1904

Dignified portrait exemplifies Curtis's approach to documenting Native American subjects with formal compositional techniques borrowed from studio photography.

Medium
photogravure

Start the Discussion

Request access to join the discussion

More by Edward S. Curtis

Portfolio I, Plate 18: Chideh-Apache

Portfolio I, Plate 18: Chideh-Apache

1903

'Waiting in the Forest - Cheyenne'

'Waiting in the Forest - Cheyenne'

Canyon de Chelly

Canyon de Chelly

Request access to see more

Spotted works by Edward S. Curtis

✦

Cleveland Museum of Art

140 spotted

✦

Art Institute of Chicago

1 spotted

About this work

Edward S. Curtis, Portfolio I, Plate 23: Jicarilla Matron, 1904

Dignified portrait exemplifies Curtis's approach to documenting Native American subjects with formal compositional techniques borrowed from studio photography.

Medium
photogravure
Year
1904
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Monochrome, Documentary, American, Photograph, Native American, Early Twentieth Century, Female Figure, Portrait, Photogravure, Ethnographic

More works by Edward S. Curtis

Collected by

Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago