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Edward Curtis: The Grand Idea
| Place: | Davenport Gallery (Gallery E) |
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| Date From: | 6/16/2018 |
| Date To: | 9/23/2018 |
| Summary: | 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952). Curtis made his living as a photographer in Seattle in the late 1800s early 1900s but was not satisfied with his success as a society portrait artist. Gradually he began to envision “a comprehensive and permanent record of all the important tribes… that still retain to a considerable degree their primitive customs and traditions.” This goal, a multi-volume work entitled The North American Indian, took him over 30 years and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Over that time he visited over 80 tribes, exposed approximately 40,000 negatives, and recorded more than 10,000 songs on wax cylinder. The two thousand images published in these volumes helped form prevailing ideas worldwide about Native Americans. The understanding available to us today shows us that Curtis used his considerable artistry to create an Indian world of his imagination. Yet the photos are of real people and remain a record, open to many interpretations, of American history, the history of photography, and for man, a visual connection to their ancestors. |
| Description: | This exhibition will show photogravures from The North American Indian complemented by unpublished Curtis photographs, objects from the MAC American Indian and History Collections, and photographs by local contemporaries of Curtis from the MAC Archives. |
| Related Objects: |
1487.10 (Photogravure, "A Chief's Daughter-Skokomish (plate 300; portfolio 9)", 1912)
1487.11 (Photogravure, "Luqaiot-Kittitas (plate 247, portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.12 (Photogravure, "Piopio-Maksmaks, Profile - Wallawalla (plate 268; portfolio 8)", 1905)
1487.13 (Photogravure, "Wishham Bride (plate 281, portfolio 8)", 1910)
1487.14 (Photogravure, "Innocence-Umatilla (plate 270; portfolio 8)", 1910)
1487.16 (Photogravure, "Embarking-Kutenai (plate 250; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.18 (Photogravure, "Big Knife - Flathead (plate 230; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.19 (Photogravure, "A Flathead Chief (plate 229; portfolio 7)", 1900)
1487.20 (Photogravure, "Flathead Camp (plate 231; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.21 (Photogravure, "By the River-Flathead (plate 236; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.22 (Photogravure, "Flathead Type (plate 227; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.23 (Photogravure, "Kalispel Type (plate 237; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.24 (Photogravure, "Village of the Kalispel (plate 239; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.25 (Photogravure, "Dusty Dress- Kalispel (plate 238; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.26 (Photogravure, "Spokan Camp (sic) (plate 243; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.27 (Photogravure, "Spokan Man (sic) (plate 241; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.28 (Photogravure, "Nespilim Woman (plate 245; portfolio 7)", 1905)
1487.29 (Photogravure, "Nespilim Man (plate 244; portfolio 7)", 1905)
1487.30 (Photogravure, "Nespilim Girl (plate 246; portfolio 7)", 1905)
1487.31 (Photogravure, "Typical Nez Perce (plate 258; portfolio 8)", 1899)
1487.32 (Photogravure, "Yellow Bull - Nez Perce (plate 257; portfolio 8)", 1905)
1487.33 (Photogravure, "Lawyer- Nez Perce (plate 264; portfolio 8)", 1905)
1487.34 (Photogravure, "Black Eagle - Nez Perce (plate 265; portfolio 8)", 1905)
1487.35 (Photograph, "Chief Joseph", 1903)
1487.36 (Photogravure, "Klikitat Profile (plate 226; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.38 (Photogravure, "Wife of Mnainak-Yakima (plate 221; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.39 (Photogravure, "Wishnai - Yakima (plate 222; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.4 (Photogravure, "Sun Dance Encampment-Piegan (plate 192; portfolio 6)", 1900)
1487.40 (Photogravure, "A Camp of the Yakima (plate 223, portfolio 7)", 1909)
1487.41 (Photogravure, "Inashah - Yakima (plate 220, portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.42 (Photogravure, "On Spokane River (plate 242; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.43 (Photogravure, "Kotsuis and Hohhuq - Nakoaktok (plate 336; portfolio 10)", 1914)
1487.45 (Photogravure, "Country of the Kutenai (plate 248; portfolio 7)", 1910)
1487.5 (Photogravure, "Basket Maker (plate 310; portfolio 9)", 1912)
1487.6 (Photogravure, "Quinault Female Type (plate 294; portfolio 9)", 1912)
1487.7 (Photogravure, "Puget Sound Type (plate 308; portfolio 9)", 1899)
1487.8 (Photogravure, "Hleastunuh - Skokomish (plate 298; portfolio 9)", 1912)
1487.9 (Photogravure, "A Mat House-Skokomish (plate 301; portfolio 9)", 1912)
175.15 (Print, Photographic; Photograph, "The Bowman - Nootka", 1910)
1982.HINES (Photogravure; Page, "Wishham Handicraft (plate facing page 172, volume 8)", 1909)
2962.880 (Photogravure, "In the Land of the Apsaroke", 1908)
2962.881 (Photograph; Cyanotype, "Hoopla Tribe", circa 1922)
2962.882 (Photograph; Cyanotype, "Hoopa Tribe North California 1922", 1922)
2962.883 (Photograph; Cyanotype, "Hoopa Tribe", 1922)
2962.884 (Photograph; Cyanotype, "Klamath Indians", 1922)
2963.4 (Camera, Folding, "Large Format Folding Camera or Field Camera", 1891)
4080.8 (Camera, "Pony Premo SR 4x5 Field Camera and Case", 1896)
82.12.20.8/11 (Photogravure; Page, "Wishham Young Woman (plate facing page 122, volume 8)", 1909)
CARROLL.1981.1 (Photograph, "Signal Fire to the Mountain God", 1909)
GARMAN.1981.39 (Photograph; Print, Albumen, "The Vanishing Race", 1904)
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