The Blanket Weaver - Navaho
Medium
photogravure
Dimensions
image: 28.3 × 39.5 cm (11 1/8 × 15 9/16 in.) sheet: 45.9 × 55.8 cm (18 1/16 × 21 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the UBS Art Collection
Accession Number
2023.30.50
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Edward Sheriff Curtis · 1868–1952
Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952) was born on February 19 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, into a struggling family led by his father, Reverend Asahel Curtis, a Civil War veteran and farmer, and mother Ellen Sheriff. Raised in poverty amid his father's postwar frailties, Curtis left school after sixth grade and apprenticed as a photographer in a St. Paul, Minnesota, studio at age seventeen in 1885. The...