Qahatyka Girl
- Medium
- Photogravure
- Dimensions
- 16" x 12"
- Framed
- 26" x 27"
$1,800
About this piece
“Qahatyka Girl” is an original Edward Curtis photogravure for sale from The North American Indian, a sensitive portrait of a young woman of the Qahatika, a desert people of southern Arizona documented by Curtis. Her calm expression and the fine detail of her dress are drawn out by Curtis’s masterful tonal control, printed as an authentic hand-pulled impression from the original copper plates, not a modern reproduction. The warm sepia range and subtle gradation are the mark of a real Curtis photogravure. At 16” x 12”, it is ideally scaled for a focused portrait hanging. Because it is drawn from one of only four known volumes made from Curtis’s original plates, this is a true collector’s piece, an Edward Curtis original print prized as museum-quality early twentieth-century photography and as a rare portrait of Qahatika life.
Edward Curtis
Historical
Art Source Collective is proud to offer original Edward Curtis photogravure prints from one of four known volumes of prints made from the original copper plates. These rare photographs document indigenous peoples of North America with remarkable artistry and sensitivity.
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