Zuni Girls at the River

About this piece

An original Edward Curtis photogravure for sale, “Zuni Girls at the River” captures a quiet everyday moment along the water at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, a scene from Curtis’s series The North American Indian that trades formal portraiture for lived, unguarded grace. The figures and their reflections are rendered with the soft tonal transitions that define authentic Curtis work, printed as a hand-pulled impression from the original copper plates rather than reproduced by modern means. At 23” x 19”, the composition reads beautifully at a distance and rewards a closer look at its detail and light. Because it comes from one of only four known volumes struck from Curtis’s original plates, this is a genuine collector’s photogravure, not a reprint, an Edward Curtis original print that works equally as fine art photography and as a document of Zuni daily life at the turn of the twentieth century.