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From John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art

  1. Die Gefangenen (The Prisoners) by Käthe Kollwitz, Image 1.

    Käthe Kollwitz

    Die Gefangenen (The Prisoners), 1908

    Etching

    12.8 x 16.75 in

  2. Untitled (Portrait of Lady) by Mary Gow, Image 1.

    Mary Gow

    Untitled (Portrait of Lady), 1907

    Intaglio

    16 x 21.5 in

  3. Miss Alexander (Girl in White) by Henry Wolf, Image 1.

    Henry Wolf

    Miss Alexander (Girl in White), 1907

    Engraving

    5.75 x 10.625 in

  4. First House in Nevada-Built in Genoa in 1851 by Walter Monroe, Image 1.

    Walter Monroe

    First House in Nevada-Built in Genoa in 1851, 1906

    Oil

  5. Flora by Richard Smythe, Image 1.

    Richard Smythe

    Flora, 1906

    Engraving

    16 x 26 in

  6. The Vernon Children by Joseph Bishop Pratt, Image 1.

    Joseph Bishop Pratt

    The Vernon Children, 1906

    Mezzotint

    18 x 21.5 in

  7. Untitled by Joseph Bishop Pratt, Image 1.

    Joseph Bishop Pratt

    Untitled, 1904

    Engraving

    19.5 x 25.5 in

  8. Lions and Hunter by George Rene Whaite, Image 2.

    George Rene Whaite

    Lions and Hunter, 1903

    Oil

    60 x 40 in

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About the artist

Edward Sheriff Curtis

American

1868–1952

Born in 1868 near Whitewater, Wisconsin, Edward Sheriff Curtis became one of America’s finest photographers and ethnologists. The Curtis family moved to Port Orchard, Washington in 1887. When Curtis was 24, he started working as a studio portrait photographer in Seattle. He also experimented with landscape and mountaineering photographs on extended trips to Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. By 1895, Curtis began photographing Native Americans. He took many pictures of the Alaskan/Yukon Gold Rush of 1897 and was the official expedition photographer on E.H. Harriman’s Alaskan expedition of 1899. It was on this very expedition that Curtis discovered his passion for documenting Native peoples’ ways of life.

Edward S. Curtis devoted the next 30 years photographing and documenting over eighty, tribes west of the Mississippi, from the Mexican border to northern Alaska. His project won support from such prominent and powerful figures as President Theodore Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan. In 1930, he published The North American Indian, consisted of 20 volumes, each containing 75 hand-pressed photogravures and approximately 300 pages of text. Each volume was accompanied by a corresponding portfolio containing at least 36 photogravures.
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