Girl and Jar – San Ildefonso

Media - 1988.5.18 - SAAM-1988.5.18_1 - 10446
Copied Edward S. Curtis, Girl and Jar--San Ildefonso, 1905, photogravure, sight 16 5⁄8 x 12 1⁄4 in. (12.3 x 31.1 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the United States Marshal Service of the U.S. Department of Justice, 1988.5.18

Artwork Details

Title
Girl and Jar – San Ildefonso
Artist
Printer
Suffolk Engraving Co.
Publisher
Date
1905
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sight 16 5⁄8 x 12 1⁄4 in. (12.3 x 31.1 cm.)
Markings
lower center in plate: 1905 lower left in plate: GIRL AND JAR - SAN ILDEFONSO lower center in plate: From Copyright Photograph 1905 by E.S. Curtis lower right in plate: Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co. Cambridge, Mass. upper left in plate: Plate 590 mount verso lower right in pencil: Vince
Credit Line
Transfer from the United States Marshal Service of the U.S. Department of Justice
Mediums Description
photogravure
Classifications
Keywords
  • Figure
  • Indian
  • Figure female — bust
  • Landscape — New Mexico — San Ildefonso
  • Object — art object — pottery
Object Number
1988.5.18
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1988.5.18

Artwork Description

Between 1900 and 1930, Edward S. Curtis traveled across the continent photographing more than seventy Native American tribes. The photographs presented daily activities, customs, and religions of a people he called “a vanishing race.” To this end, Curtis often costumed his subjects and set up scenes, mixing tribal artifacts and traditions to match his romanticized vision of the people he studied.


A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013