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Bruce kapson gallery

The expert source for the original works of Edward S. Curtis.
 

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

 

By private appointment only
310.963.7697
info@brucekapson.com

 

The Gallery welcomes all inquiries about Vintage Edward S. Curtis works whether for purchase or consignment. 

 

The Bruce Kapson Gallery has conducted extensive research and focuses on the Master Exhibition Prints, the Goldtones, and the Copper Photogravure Printing Plates of Edward S. Curtis.

 

 Bruce Kapson has worked as a Curtis curator and independent research scholar, and the gallery offers appraisal services to institutional and private collections around the world.

 

 


 

 

I was 18 years old, driving cross country, I stopped in a poster gallery outside Tucson, Arizona where I spotted a group of vintage photographs of American Indians the like of which I had never seen before. They took my breath away. I found out they were by Edward S. Curtis, and I bought them on the spot with all the money I’d saved for travel. The trip was short-circuited, but I never looked back. That was the beginning of my passion for Curtis. and I began research into the historic importance of this man’s life’s work.

 

I opened my gallery featuring Curtis, the most influential photographer of the American West, in 1982. Today the Bruce Kapson Gallery is one of the leading authorities on this early 20th-century photographer whose lasting vision would forever change the way the world views Native Americans. We specialize in Curtis’s vintage photographic works, focusing on the Master Prints, vintage Goldtones, and the Masterwork Copper Photogravure Printing Plates.

- Bruce Kapson