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Purchase from the most extensive source of Edward S. Curtis copper photogravure plates, vintage prints and re-strike prints from the original copper - an historic, one-of-a-kind documentation of Native Americans.
Copper Plates
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The Curtis Gallery in Monterey, CA presents the Edward Sheriff Curtis ‘Collector’s Exhibition’, a presentation of Curtis’ one-of-a-kind photogravure plates, representing the images of tribes visited by Curtis during his preparations for his master work – The North American Indian – The Vanishing Race.
Photogravure Prints
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The Curtis Gallery offers an extensive collection of portfolio and volume size photogravure prints. Each print is struck from the one-of-a-kind copper plate created by Edward Curtis to publish his images in The North American Indian - The Vanishing Race.
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Director's Choice Combo of the Week
Karok Woman
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Copper Plate & Vintage Print Combination
Vintage Print - Printed in 1923
The combo consists of the volume copper plate and the vintage print made from the copper plate by Curtis. The Combo beautifully illustrates the process that Curtis mastered using the volume copper plate as the negative from which to make the vintage print.
**Copper Plate & Vintage Print Combos are excluded from other discounts and are only available framed. (A $900 value)
Cascade
The Cascade tribe are native to Washington. They are also known as the Watlala. Curtis created a total of three (3) copper photogravure plates during his visits with the Cascade...
Wishham
The Wishham tribe are native to the area along the Columbia River above and below the Dalles. They are known as Wishram. Curtis created a total of forty-two (42) copper photogravure plates...
Namnit
The Namnit tribe are native to the Washington and Oregon area. They were part of the Chinook family. Curtis created a total of one (1) copper photogravure plate during his visit with...
CHIMAKUM
The Chimakum lived in Washington between Hood Canal and Discovery Bay. Today, Chimakum are enrolled in three Federally recognized tribes. Curtis created a total of three (3) copper...
EMBARKING - KUTENAI
Plate 250 from portfolio 7 is titled “Embarking” and depicts a woman in a canoe pulled up to a rocky shore with a woman standing on the shoreline. Edward Curtis took this photograph near the southern end of Flathead lake in Montana where...
KLICKITAT BASKETRY
Basketry was a true form of expression for the women of the Klickitat tribe. “They spoke with their hands and made their deepest inner thoughts come to life,” says Jane Gargas of the Yakima Herald.
CONTACT THE CURTIS GALLERY
David Hull, Managing Director of The Curtis Gallery, is available to discuss these remarkable one-of-a-kind offerings, either by telephone: 760-685-6587 or e-mail: david@curtisgallery.com.