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The Vanishing Race
1904
Edward S. Curtis
Edward S. Curtis (American, 1868–1952)
Photography
The Vanishing Race, 1904. Edward S. Curtis (American, 1868–1952). Orotone in original Curtis Studio frame; image: 27.8 x 35.5 cm (10 15/16 x 14 in.); paper: 27.8 x 35.5 cm (10 15/16 x 14 in.); framed: 40 x 47.5 cm (15 3/4 x 18 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Diann G. Mann and Thomas A. Mann 2019.27 Curtis wrote that this scene of Navajo riding off into the distance showed “that the Indians as a race, already shorn in their tribal strength and stripped of their primitive dress, are passing into the darkness of an unknown future.” The artist’s signature image is produced here as an orotone, a positive gelatin silver print on glass that has been backed with gold pigment or leaf. This image is the frontispiece of Edward Curtis’s multivolume study of The North American Indian.
- Maker/Artist
- Curtis, Edward S.
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- orotone in original Curtis Studio frame
- Dimensions
- Image: 27.8 x 35.5 cm (10 15/16 x 14 in.); Paper: 27.8 x 35.5 cm (10 15/16 x 14 in.); Framed: 40 x 47.5 cm (15 3/4 x 18 11/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Written in gold in lower right on recto: “Curtis” Inscription: Imprinted in type on adhesive label removed from verso of backing board: “Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art/Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4001/Return postage guaranteed/32. Edward Curtis (1868-1952) American/The Vanishing Race, Navajo, 1904/orotone/18 x 22”/An American Portrait: Photographs from the/Collectionof Diann and Thomas Mann/April 1-June 12, 1994” Inscription: Various paper fragments from backing board have been removed or fallen off and retained
- Departments
- Photography
- Accession Number
- 2019.27
- Credit Line
- Gift of Diann G. Mann and Thomas A. Mann
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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