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"Walvia ("Medicine Root") - Taos/Original Edward S. Curtis Portfolio Print

$ 2164.79

Availability: 86 in stock
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Artisan: Edward S. Curtis, Photographer
  • Provenance: Letter of authentication available
  • Condition: This original Curtis Portfolio Print has very little age toning and is in excellent condition.

    Description

    ""Walvia ("Medicine Root") - Taos" is an original first strike print from Edward S. Curtis's Portfolios. This beautiful sepia photogravure is on Japan vellum paper . The date of photograph is 1905. The print itself measures 15.5" by 11.5" and with the border 18" by 22". This is an original first strike print, not a reprint. There is a letter of authentication from the Andrew Smith Gallery in Santa Fe.
    This original Curtis Portfolio Print has very little age toning and is in excellent condition.
    A portfolio of original prints accompanied each set of Curtis's monumental work
    The American Indian
    (1907-1930).
    Originally 500 complete sets, each containing 20 volumes with a portfolio of corresponding prints, were planned but only 300-odd were actually produced.