id: 152275 accession number: 1985.154 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.154 updated: 2024-08-08 15:16:21.780000 Moki Men and Burros on the Road, 1900. Edward S. Curtis (American, 1868–1952). Platinum print; image: 14.5 x 18.6 cm (5 11/16 x 7 5/16 in.); matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Thomas and Mildred Dougherty Foundation 1985.154 title: Moki Men and Burros on the Road title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1900 creation date earliest: 1900 creation date latest: 1900 current location: creditline: The Thomas and Mildred Dougherty Foundation copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: platinum print department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Edward S. Curtis (American, 1868–1952) - artist Edward S. Curtis American, 1868 - 1952 Edward Sheriff Curtis, born near White Water, Wisconsin, was a well-established commercial photographer before he undertook his best known work shortly before the turn of the century. Working first as photographer for the Edward H. Harriman expedition in Alaska (1899), he later secured the endorsement of Theodore Roosevelt and the support of J. P. Morgan for an extensive anthropological and photographic study of Native Americans. Curtis's work from 1906 -- 20 resulted in The North American Indian and eventually generated 40,000 negatives, of which 1,200 were presented in gravure form in the 20 volumes and 20 accompanying portfolios of his study. Although his intentions were anthropological and scholarl -- to preserve the appearance and customs of a dying race -- Curtis nevertheless was affected by the artistic styles of his time. His portraits and tableaux were often strongly pictorialist, as their presentation on imported papers and in rarefied media such as orotone would suggest. His scientific aims were frequently undercut by a personal interpretation of his subjects, to whom he often supplied costumes and props. Time has proved Curtis, in this era of his career, equally an artist and an anthropologist. His later work in Los Angeles, which deserves further study, focused on Hollywood and the world of movies. T.W.F. --- measurements: Image: 14.5 x 18.6 cm (5 11/16 x 7 5/16 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in negative: "Copyright / 1900 / by E.S. Curtis / X 768"; in brown ink on recto of photo: "Curtis [signed]"; in white ink on recto of mount: "Moki Men & Burros on the Road"; in black ink on verso: "Moki or Hopi Indians of Arizona" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, February 12 - April 20, 1986: "Year in Review 1985," CMA Bulletin, 73 (February 1986), p. 66, no. 95.', 'opening_date': '1986-02-12T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 136 url: --- IMAGES