Edward Sheriff Curtis: Visions of the First Americans

Gulbrandsen, Don

Code: 2542

ISBN: 9780785821144

Publisher: Chartwell Books

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Price: £8

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Edward Sheriff Curtis is regarded today as one of the great American photographers. His iconic work The North American Indian took him thirty years to complete and cost him his marriage and his health. As with so many artists he enthused rich and influential patrons--they don't come richer than banker J. Pierpoint Morgan or more influential than President Theodore Roosevelt--but died himself in relative poverty and obscurity. But he left behind the most complete visual record of Native Americans from the Inuit of the far north to the Hopi people of the southwest. Edward Sheriff Curtis is regarded today as one of the great American photographers. His iconic work The North American Indian took him thirty years to complete and cost him his marriage and his health. As with so many artists he enthused rich and influential patrons--they don't come richer than banker J. Pierpoint Morgan or more influential than President Theodore Roosevelt--but died himself in relative poverty and obscurity. But he left behind the most complete visual record of Native Americans from the Inuit of the far north to the Hopi people of the southwest.