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Edward S. Curtis

Portfolio I, Plate 28: Cañon de Chelly-Navaho

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Edward S. Curtis

Portfolio I, Plate 28: Cañon de Chelly-Navaho, 1904

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Courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art

This card is for when the world feels wide and uncertain, but someone keeps going anyway. A lone rider on horseback moves through towering canyon walls, dwarfed by the sheer scale of sandstone rising on either side. In Cañon de Chelly - Navaho, Edward S. Curtis captures a moment of endurance within a monumental landscape. This composition is enmeshed in the vast poetry of the landscape, the figures small yet central, drawing the eye toward the convergence of human presence and earth.

Currently held by the The Cleveland Art Museum, courtesy of Mrs. James H. Hoyt, Elton Hoyt, II, and Mrs. Amasa Stone Mather in memory of James H. Hoyt.

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