About the Artwork
Chaiwa Tewa Profile
1921
Edward Sheriff Curtis (Artist) American, 1868-1952 Suffolk England Company (Printer) American, active 1910-1930
Photogravure printed in sepia ink on off-white wove paper
Image: 15 3/8 × 11 7/16 inches (39.1 × 29.1 cm) Plate: 17 1/2 × 12 3/4 inches (44.5 × 32.4 cm) Sheet: 22 × 17 7/8 inches (55.9 × 45.4 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of James Crawford in memory of his mother Mildred Crawford
F82.54
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Markings
Inscribed, in plate, upper left: Plate 415 Inscribed, in plate, lower left: CHAIWA-TEWA-PROFILE Inscribed, in plate, lower center: From Copyright Photograph 1921 by E.S. Curtis Inscribed, in plate, lower right: Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co. Boston
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1982-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Andrews, Ralph W. Curtis' Western Indians. Seattle, 1962, p. 84 (ill.).
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Edward Sheriff Curtis, Chaiwa Tewa Profile, 1921, photogravure printed in sepia ink on off-white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James Crawford in memory of his mother Mildred Crawford, F82.54.
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