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Valley Fine Art specializes in the work of 19th- and early 20th-century American painters and the Native American photography of Edward S. Curtis.
Edward Curtis was tireless in his quest to document the living history of the North American Indian. For more than thirty years, Edward Curtis documented more than eighty of North America's native nations. In so doing, Edward Curtis published what has become the most in-depth and important ethnographic study of these cultures. Curtis's body of work, entitled "The North American Indian," was published between 1907 and 1930. After living and working intimately with Edward Curtis the Native Americans referred to Curtis as "Shadow Catcher". His efforts to preserve their dying cultures were unparalleled. His monumental and historic documentation was supported by Theodore Roosevelt and financially backed by J. P. Morgan. His nostalgic, yet heroic images will forever archive that vanishing epoch. In the years hence, Edward Curtis has become nothing less than an American icon. Today, Valley Fine Art is privileged to showcase the largest vintage Edward Curtis collection in the country.
Valley Fine Art has also been a long respected dealer of works by deceased artists such as Nationally known living artists shown at the gallery include Woodrow Blagg, Kenneth Bunn, Christopher Burkett, Don Coen, Michael and Nicholas Coleman, John Encinias, Pete Hajdu, Judy Larson, Michael Naranjo, Barbara Van Cleve and Theodore Waddell. Valley Fine Art is always interested in purchasing rare and quality artwork.
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Valley Fine Art has more than two decades of experience showing classic American art. The gallery is the principal consultant/curator to many of the major private Edward Curtis collections, and an Edward Curtis advisor to major museums including Western Heritage in Oklahoma City. In 2005 Valley Fine Art was called upon to conduct an identification and valuation of the Edward Curtis estate. 
By the end of series publication, "The North American Indian" comprised twenty volumes and twenty portfolios, including 4,000 written pages of text, and more than twenty-two hundred photogravure images.
Charles Partridge Adams, John James Audubon, Oscar E. Berninghaus, Albert Bierstadt, Irving Couse, William Henry Jackson, Thomas Moran, Frederick Remington, Charles Marion Russell and Joseph Henry Sharp.