Edward Sheriff Curtis
The Vanishing Race — Navaho

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Artist Edward Sheriff Curtis (American, 1868–1952)American, 1868–1952

CultureAmerican

Titles

The Vanishing Race — Navaho
Plate 1, Volume 1 from the series The North American Indian

Datec. 1904

PlaceUnited States

MediumOrotone

Dimensions11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Frame: 16 × 19 × 1 1/2 in. (40.6 × 48.3 × 3.8 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Peter R. Coneway in honor of Robert Devlin and Jon P. Newton at "One Great Night in November, 1999"

Object number99.485

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Provenance[Charles Schwartz Ltd., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1999.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "A Love Affair with Pictures: 25 Years of Collecting Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," MFAH, Lower Jones and Masterson Galleries, October 14 - December 30, 2001.

Exhibited:"The American Landscape East to West: Themes in Painting and Photography, 1780-1910" at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, september 6, 2003-January 19, 2004.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

There is the copyright symbol in the lower right, recto.
There is a fragment of a label on the verso of the frame: "The Vanishing [torn] / This is perhaps the most popular [torn] / known of all the Curtis Indian picture [torn] / internationally famous. It is a pictu [torn] / carried in his mind for se [torn] / he endeavored to [torn]"

The photograph is signed recto, lower right: "Curtis".

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