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Material: Photogravure on Dutch Van Gelder paper
Date: 1928
Measurements: Image 11⁷⁄₁₆ × 15⁹⁄₁₆ inches; sheet 17¹⁵⁄₁₆ × 21⁷⁄₈ inches
Provenance: Private collection, Tucson, AZ
Photogravure of a Cape Prince of Wales man by Edward S. Curtis, printed in 1928 on Dutch Van Gelder paper, from the final years of The North American Indian. Cape Prince of Wales is the westernmost point of the North American continent, where the Bering Strait separates Alaska from Siberia by just 55 miles. The indigenous people of Cape Prince of Wales, known as the Kiŋikmiut, are an Iñupiaq people whose community at Wales represents one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in Alaska, sustained for centuries by the rich marine resources of the Bering Strait. Curtis's 1927 and 1928 expeditions to Arctic Alaska produced some of the most visually arresting and geographically remote images of his entire career. Late-period photogravures of Alaskan subjects on Dutch Van Gelder paper are among the less common examples of his work. From a private collection in Tucson, Arizona.
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Material: Photogravure on Dutch Van Gelder paper
Date: 1928
Measurements: Image 11⁷⁄₁₆ × 15⁹⁄₁₆ inches; sheet 17¹⁵⁄₁₆ × 21⁷⁄₈ inches
Provenance: Private collection, Tucson, AZ
Photogravure of a Cape Prince of Wales man by Edward S. Curtis, printed in 1928 on Dutch Van Gelder paper, from the final years of The North American Indian. Cape Prince of Wales is the westernmost point of the North American continent, where the Bering Strait separates Alaska from Siberia by just 55 miles. The indigenous people of Cape Prince of Wales, known as the Kiŋikmiut, are an Iñupiaq people whose community at Wales represents one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in Alaska, sustained for centuries by the rich marine resources of the Bering Strait. Curtis's 1927 and 1928 expeditions to Arctic Alaska produced some of the most visually arresting and geographically remote images of his entire career. Late-period photogravures of Alaskan subjects on Dutch Van Gelder paper are among the less common examples of his work. From a private collection in Tucson, Arizona.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand