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ARCHIVAL PRINTS
Archival Print Product Description:
Cardozo Fine Art’s Archival prints are created to faithfully replicate the beauty, richness and detail of Edward Curtis’ vintage photographs.We start with a professionally conserved vintage photogravures and Curtis’ master prints to ensure that the image has been restored to its original fidelity.Using a customized lighting setup with specialized filters, we photograph the vintage print using a Nikon D800, creating a digital RAW file that captures the full tonal range of the image.
Please note:
Listed dimensions refer to the paper size, not the printed image. For both ethical and aesthetic reasons, we never crop Curtis's original images or alter their aspect ratio. Every print includes a border of at least 1 inch for safe handling and framing, so the image itself is slightly smaller than the paper.
For example, an 11" × 14" print of An Oasis in the Badlands has an image size of
approximately 9" × 12".
LANDSCAPES
Canyon De Chelly, 1904
$185 – $1250
Canyon de Chelly (pronounced “de chay”, after the Navaho “Ta She”) was one of the most sacred places for the Navaho and remains so to this day. It is located in Northeastern Arizona in the heart of Navaho country. The insignificance of man relative to nature is clearly illustrated through the sheer size (approximately 1,000 feet high) of enduring cliff formations that surround the riders. Canyon de Chelly is widely considered to be one of Curtis’ most important and powerful images. A personal favorite of Curtis, he printed it in at least four different photographic processes.
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
Kutenai Duck Hunter, 1910
$185 – $1250
The “Kutenai Duck Hunter” is one of Curtis’ most beautiful, tranquil, and compelling images. The beautiful light, idyllic subject matter, and elegant composition all combine to make this a truly iconic image. This photograph was taken on Flathead Lake in Northern Montana, one of the purest large bodies of water in America. The Kutenai were semi-nomadic and occupied portions of southeastern British Columbia, northern Idaho, and northwestern Montana, moving seasonally to follow food sources. The Kutenai usually crafted their canoes of pine bark, but as illustrated here, occasionally made canoes of fresh elk hides stretched over a framework of fir strips.
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
Piegan Encampment - 1910
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The author first saw the Piegan during the summer of 1898 at the season of their medicine-lodge ceremony. They were in camp on a depressed stretch of prairie, entirely concealing them from the sight of any one approaching. Suddenly one rode out in full view of their encampment and beheld a truly thrilling sight. The camp was a combined one of the Piegan and many visitors from the Piegan of the north, the Bloods, and the Blackfeet, in all some two hundred and thirty lodges. If this poor remnant of a once so powerful tribe proved such an inspiring sight, what must it have been at the height of their existence! Red Plume describes the camp of his people when he was a youth as a circle a mile or more in diameter and in some places sixteen lodges deep. To have seen such a vast camp would have been worth long privation and hardship.
– Edward S. Curtis, The North American Indian, Text VI, 12-13, 1911.
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
The Three Chiefs - Piegan, 1900
$185 – $1250
The Three Chiefs is often cited as the single most important image in Edward Curtis’ body of over 50,000 photographs. The Three Chiefs is the iconic image from a watershed experience in Curtis’ life that ignited his passion to preserve a comprehensive record of Native American life. In the summer of 1900, Curtis took a brief field trip to Montana with noted ethnographer George Bird Grinnell. During this trip Curtis first encountered Native Americans whose culture was still largely intact and who were willing to share their religion, mythology, and personal lives with him. Curtis spent three days looking for the perfect combination of riders, sky, and prairie to make this image of Blackfoot tribal leaders in their traditional garments.
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
Bow River - Blackfoot, 1926
$185 – $1250
Curtis featured the stunning scenery of The Bow River as the backdrop for this image. Beginning in the Rocky Mountains, the Bow River winds through the Alberta foothills onto the prairies, where it meets the Oldman River. The two then form the South Saskatchewan River and ultimately flow through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay.
The Blackfoot Tribe made varied use of the river for sustenance before European settlers arrived, such as using its valleys in their buffalo hunt. The name Bow refers to the reeds that grew along its banks and were used by native people to make bows. The Blackfoot language name for the river is Makhabn, meaning “river where bow reeds grow”.
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
Homeward, 1898
Original source material was from Cardozo's private collection –
A platinumprint was the source material
$185 – $1250
This photograph is among Edward Curtis’ very earliest Native American images and one of his first award-winning works. Made in Puget Sound, it stands as one of the historically significant photographs that helped launch Curtis’ thirty-year career.
The massive canoe shown here was carved from a single dugout tree trunk. Canoes held profound practical and cultural importance for many Native communities, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, where daily life and survival were closely tied to the sea.
The platinum process beautifully enhances the dramatic clouds and expansive sky, giving the image exceptional tonal depth and atmosphere. This print was included in the landmark exhibition Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian, which traveled throughout Europe in the early 2000s.
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
The Vanishing Race, 1904
$185 – $1250
Photographed in 1904, The Vanishing Race was Curtis’ signature piece and was the visual metaphor for the core conceptual underpinning of Curtis’ entire thirty-year project i.e., that Native Americans, as a culture, at least, were vanishing. It became Curtis’ over-arching goal to create a record of them and their world before they disappeared forever. Curtis searched for an image to illustrate this idea for nearly four years before creating The Vanishing Race. A century ago, it was by far and away Curtis’ most popular single image. Today it still remains a highly sought after classic.
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
The Chief, Klamath, 1923
$185 – $1250
This portrays a Klamath tribe warrior dressed in a traditional deerskin suit and a long headdress. The warrior gazes towards the stunning Crater Lake in southern Oregon. The Klamath tribe might have witnessed the formation of Crater Lake, which resulted from a powerful volcanic eruption. Today, the lake is part of a national park and holds the title of the deepest lake in the United States.
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
Country Of The Kutenai, 1910
$185 – $1250
Excerpt from the original narrative by Edward Curtis:
“The Kutenai occupied portions of the southeastern British Columbia, northern Idaho, and northwestern Montana. In this region of blue, mountain lakes and majestic rivers, they very naturally made use of canoes. The commoner form was the pine-bark craft still to be observed among the Kalispel, but occasionally they made canoes of the form here illustrated, by stretching fresh elk-hides over a framework of fir strips or tough saplings. The one seen in the picture is a canvas-covered specimen found on the shore of Flathead Lake in 1909.”
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
An Oasis In The Badlands - Sioux, 1905
$185 – $1250
Red Hawk. Oglala Lakota. Born 1854. First war-party in 1865 under Crazy Horse, against troops. Led an unsuccessful war-party at 22 years old against Shoshone. First coup when twelve horse-raiding Blackfeet were discovered in a creek bottom and annihilated. Led another party against Shoshone, but failed to find them; encountered and surrounded a white-horse troop. From a hill overlooking the first Red Hawk saw soldiers dismount and charge. The Lakota fled, leaving him alone. A soldier came close and fired, but missed. Red Hawk did likewise, a thump and “O-h-h-h!”. A Cheyenne boy on horseback rushed in and struck the soldier, counting coup. Engaged in twenty battles, many with troops, among them the Custer fight of 1876; others with Pawnee, Crow, Shoshone, Cheyenne and even with Sioux scouts ...
This biography was written by Edward S. Curtis in The North American Indian, Volume 3, Page 188.
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
PORTRAITS
Mosa - Mohave, 1903
$185 – $1250
It would be difficult to conceive of a more thorough aboriginal than this Mohave girl. Her eyes are those of the fawn of the forest, questioning the strange things of civilization upon which it gazes for the first time. She is such a type as Father Garces may have viewed on his journey through the Mohave country in 1776.
Print caption by Edward S. Curtis, The North American Indian, Portfolio II, Plate no. 61, 1908.
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
Waihusiwa, a Zuni Kyaqimassi, 1903
$185 – $1250
Kyaqimassi (“house chief”) is the title of the Shiwanni of the north, the most important of all Zuni priests. Waihusiwa in his youth spent the summer and fall of 1886 in the East with Franklin Hamilton Cushing, and was the narrator of much of the lore published in Cushing’s Zuni Folk Tales. A highly spiritual man, he is one of the most steadfast of the Zuni priests upholding the traditions of the native religion.
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
A Walpi Man, 1904
$185 – $1250
The Walpi Man is an iconic Curtis portrait widely considered to be aesthetically in the top one tenth of one percent of all of Curtis' work. The image is highly evocative and illustrates the extraordinary connection Curtis had with many Native Americans and their leaders. The subject is Meator, an important Hopi leader, from a tribal group with whom Curtis was especially close. It is one of his most historically significant images as it was made during Curtis' first independent, self-financed trip into the field, in 1900. Of Curtis' forty to fifty thousand images, many consider this to be one of his most compelling.
This image is illustrated in numerous books on Edward Curtis, but of key importance is that this exact print was copy photographed to reproduce the cover of Cardozo's major Curtis book, Sacred Legacy: Edward Curtis and the North American Indian.
"The religious and ceremonial life of the Hopi centers in the kiva, which is simply a room, wholly or partly subterranean and entered by way of ladder through an opening in the flat roof...While the membership of the kiva consists principally of men and boys from certain clan or clans, there is no case in which all the members of a kiva belong to one clan - a condition inseparable from the provision that a man may change his kiva membership, and in fact made necessary by the existence of more clans than kivas. It is probable; nevertheless, that originally the kivas were clan institutions." - Edward Curtis
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
Joseph–Nez Perce, 1903
Hienmot Tooyalakekt
$185 – $1250
Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé is widely considered to be one of the most important tribal leaders of the 19th century. He became close friends with Edward Curtis and this friendship was critical to Curtis’ later success in gaining the trust of numerous other tribes. Joseph’s pride, nobility and tragic experiences that he and his people suffered are all evident on his face. After eluding the U.S. Calvary for nearly two years he was finally subdued and proclaimed the words that became famous: “I will fight no more forever…”
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
Bears Belly – Arikara, 1908
$185 – $1250
Born in 1847 in the present-day North Dakota, Bear’s Belly was a highly respected and honored warrior of the Arikara, and became a member of the Bears in the Medicine Fraternity. He acquired his bearskin in a dramatic battle in which he single-handedly killed three bears, thus gaining his personal “medicine”..
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
Qahatika Girl, 1907
$185 – $1250
Curtis’s minimal composition emphasizes this girl’s dark eyes, openness, and direct gaze. The Qahatika lived in the Arizona desert environment which was amazing to Curtis: “One traversing this region would have cause to wonder how a human being could wrest from so barren a land the necessities of life.” The Qahatika had a powerful connection with their homeland. When they were asked why they did not move to river valleys, where living would be easier, they would reply “Our home is the best.”
11 x 14″ - $185
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20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
Tapa–Antelope Water, 1905
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A stunning portrait of a young man from the Taos Pueblo, in northern New Mexico. This simple, white cotton wrap was worn for many years as the traditional dress for men in the Taos Pueblo.
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
Woman and Child - Nunivak, 1929
$185 – $1250
11 x 14″ - $185
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20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
Geronimo 1905 – Limited Edition
Original source material of a Platinum Print was from Cardozo's private collection –
$185 – $1250
This portrait of the historical old Apache was made in March 1905. According to Geronimo’s calculation, he was at the time seventy-six years of age, thus making the year of his birth 1829. The picture was taken at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the day before the inauguration of President Roosevelt, Geronimo being one of the warriors who took part in the inaugural parade at Washington. He appreciated the honor of being one of those chosen for this occasion, and the catching of his features, while the old warrior was in a retrospective mood, was most fortunate.
11 x 14″ - $185
16 x 20″ - $325
20 x24" - $495
30 x 40" - $1250
ES CUrtis - Self portrait
Photographed around 1899, this rare self-portrait captures Edward Curtis in his early thirties — the young artist at the outset of his life's work, beneath his signature fedora. Rendered in the soft-focus, pictorialist style he was mastering.
11 x 14″ - $185
ES CUrtis - Proper Dress
In Proper Dress, Edward Curtis presents himself as the turn-of-the-century artist in full signature fedora, bohemian bow tie, and tweed suit, meeting the viewer with a calm, self-possessed gaze. It is an intimate and assured portrait of the maker behind The North American Indian, reproduced from original source material with the tonal depth and presence of the original.
11 x 14″ - $185
