Wolf- Apsaroke, Portfolio #4, Plate #142, Photogravure, 1908 23185 Watercolor and ink on paper

Watercolor and ink on paper

lower left margin

Original vintage circa 1932 drawing of a colorado mining town with hills and mountains

Signed and titled on reverse

Dated lower left

Wolf- Apsaroke, Portfolio #4, Plate #142, Photogravure, 1908 23185 Watercolor and ink on paperPhotogravure by American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868 1952) printed on (Dutch) Holland Van Gelder, a handmade paper. Presented in a custom frame. This portrait of an Apsaroke man from 1908 is plate 142 from portfolio 4 of Curtis' magnum opus work, "The North American Indian Project." A thirty year endeavor begun in 1900, the project documented over 80 Native American tribes living west of the Mississippi, spanning from Alaska to Mexico.