Live Auction 14358Visionaries: Photographs from the Emily and Jerry Spiegel Collection
EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (1858–1952)
Lot 3

EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (1858–1952)

The Vanishing Race, 1904

Closed10 October 2017

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EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS (1858–1952)
The Vanishing Race, 1904
platinum print on layered mount
embossed photographer's copyright credit and date (recto); signed in ink (tertiary mount, recto); titled in ink and variously annotated, numbered in pencil (tertiary mount, verso); titled on affixed '1915 San Francisco Fair' exhibition label (frame backing board)
image/sheet: 6 x 8 in. (15.2 x 20.2 cm.)
primary mount: 6 1/2 x 8 3/8 in. (16.5 x 21.2 cm.)
secondary mount: 7 x 9 in. (17.7 x 22.8 cm.)
tertiary mount: 10 x 12 in. (25.5 x 30.5 cm.)

Christie's, New York, November 10, 1981, lot 63;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

Edward C. Curtis has preserved for future generations an important era in American history and provided an opportunity to understand the Native American experience. Perhaps the most important legacy of Curtis's monumental accomplishment is the expression of an extraordinary and deeply felt sympathy with the personal and spiritual lives of the American Indian. In this respect, Edward S. Curtis stands alone among the photographers of Native Americans (Christopher Cardozo, Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2000, p. 25).