1799124

Edward S Curtis Photogravure Red Cloud #1799124

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Edward S Curtis Photogravure Red Cloud #1799124
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Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952)
Photogravure of
"Red Cloud-Ogalala"
The Teton Sioux
Indian Chief of the No. American Plains Indians who resided
west of the Missouri River.
Printed on tweed weave paper as part of American Indian Portfolio Volume #3 page 187
Produced in Boston by John Andew & Son in 1905
The portrait of Red Cloud bears an artistic and emotional sensitivity that stands out from other portraits of the great Oglala statesman and warrior.
Curtis traveled the United States photographing and recording native Americans at ceremonial occasions and at work. Curtis was sponsored by Theodore Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan. He made orotone photographs with golden overtones created on glass and powered with gold dust and banana oil.
This is a photogravure of an original photograph made in 1905.

A photogravure is a copy of a photographic image produced from an engraving plate. This one in the 1960's. The
process is rarely used today due to the costs involved, but it produces
prints which have the subtlety of a photograph and the art quality of a
lithograph. In essence, the production of a photogravure consists of three
steps: taking the picture; producing a printing plate of the image; and
printing the image on paper.


The basic process, also called photogravure, was developed in the 1850s.
After taking a picture, a glass transparency is made from the negative.
Next, a copper engraving plate is dusted with grains of bitumen and heated
so that the bitumen becomes attached to the ...
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#: 12447</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:pristine</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1960</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:John Andrew & Son</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:22</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:17.5</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Edward S Curtis Photogravure Red Cloud</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:photogravure</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:tweed weave paper</td></tr>

<tr><td>Location:Bakersfield, Ca.</td></tr>
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