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Edward S. Curtis
[American Photographer, 1868-1952]
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Edward S. Curtis Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by Edward S. Curtis available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Hopi, Watching the Dancers, 1906 The Eclipse Dance, 1910
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Portrait Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Hesquiaht Woman, 1916
Edward S. Curtis at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C. Edward S. Curtis Collection of over 1,000 photographs
U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C. The North American Indian - Searchable database of over 2,000 images
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW! (Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Missouri
Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio Canyon De Chelly - Navaho
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio Oasis in the Badlands
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio A Piegan Dandy
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW! Cheyenne Girl
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma 3 photographs online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska 3 photographs online
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago Note the link at the bottom of the page to all works in their collection by Edward S. Curtis
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma Yellow Hawk - Yanktonai, 1908
Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy (in Italian)  (Page forward through works by clicking on "FWW")
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California A Desert Cahuilla Woman (Plate 522), 1924
Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts 1 photograph online: Haschelti - Yeibichai (Navajo) (row 3/image 6). Click on the little "i" on the detail images to bring up information about the works.
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida HOH Type, photogravure, 1912
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
ARTSversus (in French)  La Nation Indienne Nord-Americaine par Edward S. Curtis
Artnet Artist Works Catalogues 
Northwestern University, Illinois Hundreds of photographs from the 20-volume series The North American Indian
PBS Biography, from the American Masters TV series
Articles and Reference Sites:
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
eHow "How to Recognize Art by Edward S. Curtis" - brief, but has a few useful insights
Resource Library Magazine Edward Curtis: The North American Indian
Resource Library Magazine Images of an Idyllic Past
Multimedia:
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals "Edward Curtis' 1905 'Geronimo,' ca.1920s"
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals "'Harriman Expedition' with Edward Curtis Photos, ca.1899"
Antiques Roadshow (PBS) Appraisals "Edward Curtis Orotone"
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