Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher
Book description
A New York Times Notable Book
A Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan reveals the life story of the man determined to preserve a people and culture in Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life…
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I have always been fascinated with Edward Curtis, ever since my wife previewed a documentary film about him with memorable footage on Pacific Northwest Kwakiutls and their potlach rituals in preparation for showing it to one of her courses at Purdue University.
Then I became fascinated with Western art, when she and I researched together our book on the artist Howard Pyle (Howard Pyle: Imagining an American School of Art), because Pyle had a close friendship with that great artist Frederick Remington, who often focused on Native Americans, for his subject matter. We often saw Remington’s fine paintings…
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