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From John & Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art

  1. The Sentry Box on the Wall by Anthonie Waterloo, Image 2.

    Anthonie Waterloo

    The Sentry Box on the Wall, 17th century

    Etching

    3.625 x 5.375 in

  2. The Homestead by Craig Sheppard, Image 1.

    Craig Sheppard

    The Homestead, n. d.

    Oil

    22.75 x 22.87 x 1.125 in

  3. The Nevada by Hildegard Herz, Image 2.

    Hildegard Herz

    The Nevada, n. d.

    Watercolor

  4. Thistle Mug by Unknown, Image 1.

    Unknown

    Thistle Mug, c. 340 - 320 BCE

    Terracotta

    4.625 x 3.5 x 3 in

  5. Three Graceful Figures of Girls - One created beside the Koto by Harunobu, Image 1.

    Harunobu

    Three Graceful Figures of Girls - One created beside the Koto, n. d.

    Woodcut

    10.5 x 8.25 in

  6. The Mirror by Craig Sheppard, Image 1.

    Craig Sheppard

    The Mirror, n. d.

    Oil

    61 x 50.8 in

  7. The Shepherd by Craig Sheppard, Image 2.

    Craig Sheppard

    The Shepherd, n. d.

    Watercolor

    70.5 x 56.3 in

  8. John Doane

    The Printmaking Department, n. d.

    Lithograph

    30 x 20 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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