The Shadow Catcher: Edward Sheriff Curtis: The North American Indian

Welcome……I’m Kathryn Schorr, the owner of Baker Schorr Fine Art in
Midland, Texas. We are delighted to present The Shadow Catcher:
Edward Sheriff Curtis and the North American Indian, an exhibition of
large format photogravures from Curtis’ 20-volume monumental work, The
North American Indian. From 1900 to 1930 the American photographer, Edward Sheriff Curtis traveled and lived among more than eighty indigenous American tribal groups west of the Mississippi, from the Mexican border to northern Alaska. His photographs captured their authentic ways of life producing 40,000 extremely fragile glass plate negatives that were often damaged, 10,000 wax cylinders of recordings and 4,000 pages of anthropological text.