CARL [KARL] MOON A Moqui Weaver, 1914, 13.5x16.4" Gelatin Silver print on 15x17.6" brown paper on 21x22.8" brown heavy paper mount. ASG# KM/1284.
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A Moqui Weaver in artist's hand brown paper below print right. Moqui was an early Anglo term for Hopi.

Carl [Karl] Moon (b. 1879, Wilmington, OH; d. 1948, Pasadena, CA) served as a photography apprentice until 1903 when he set up a studio in Albuquerque and began painting and photographing the Indians in the area. He specialized in romantic and pictorial photographs of Indian life that were used for illustrations for his wife Grace Moon's children books. The Fred Harvey Company and the Santa Fe Railroad, for whom he was the official photographer and artistic director, also used the photographs. Moon was active primarily between 1900 and 1915. His gelatin silver prints ranging in size from 2x4" to 14x20" were often hand colored, and he also made orotones [but not of the quality of Edward Curtis]. His photographs are very painterly and contain subjects popularly used by the Taos founders in their paintings or for promotional art sought after by the Railroad. A superb collection of his work resides at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

Excellent. Mild wear. 1.5" tear right margin of Heavy paper mount (third layer).