Edward S. Curtis American, 1868-1952
Curtis Family Reunion – Vancouver Island , 1914
Goldtone print
11 x 14 in.
14 x 19 inches in original Curtis Seattle Studio frame
14 x 19 inches in original Curtis Seattle Studio frame
Unique
Newly discovered, previously unknown unique Goldtone found in The Kale Family Collection in 2023 by Bruce Kapson. This was a personal Goldtone showing Edward Curtis and his family, a singular...
Newly discovered, previously unknown unique Goldtone found in The Kale Family Collection in 2023 by Bruce Kapson. This was a personal Goldtone showing Edward Curtis and his family, a singular copy produced by the Curtis Seattle Studio expressly for Edward Curtis. Accordingly, this is the most significant single Goldtone extant and ever to appear on the market.
Pictured left to right in the Kwakiutl war canoe: possibly ethnologist George Hunt; Curtis’s daughters Florence and Beth, five-year-old daughter Katherine; wife Clara; and Edward Curtis. Photographed on location at Vancouver Island in 1914 during Curtis’s filming of “In The Land Of The Head Hunters.” This was likely the family’s last outing together. Acquired in Seattle by Dr. Howard Kale (1909 – 2008) between 1939 and 1941 after Clara Curtis’s death in 1932.
Pictured left to right in the Kwakiutl war canoe: possibly ethnologist George Hunt; Curtis’s daughters Florence and Beth, five-year-old daughter Katherine; wife Clara; and Edward Curtis. Photographed on location at Vancouver Island in 1914 during Curtis’s filming of “In The Land Of The Head Hunters.” This was likely the family’s last outing together. Acquired in Seattle by Dr. Howard Kale (1909 – 2008) between 1939 and 1941 after Clara Curtis’s death in 1932.