Carl Newland Werntz Photographs

Collection

Identifier: PAAC-0035

Staff Only

Scope and Content

Important collection of original photographs of Hopi, Apache, Havasupai peoples, Fort Apache and other locations, dated circa 1900. As an established artist, Werntz had a highly sophisticated approach to photography. No accession records for this collection. The work of William H. Simpson somehow seems to be tied to this collection but there is no paper trail to verify that.

Dates

1900

Creator

Werntz, Carl, 1874-1944 (Photographer, Person)

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to researchers on a request basis only, pending approval of request to view original material.

Copy Restrictions

User responsible for all copyright compliance. Permission to publish must be obtained from Photo Archives. Form to request permission available at: https://www.nmhistorymuseum.org/collections/photo-archives/order-photos

Biographical Information

Carl Newland Werntz was a well known Chicago painter, fine arts photographer, illustrator, cartoonist and educator who founded the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Born in Sterling, Illinois in 1874 Werntz and his wife were wide ranging world travelers who, through painting and sketching expeditions, played an important role in the development of painting in the Southwest. Werntz was a camera pictorialist photographer. In the early 1900s he visited the Hubbell Trading Post in Arizona, spending a great deal of time with the Apache as well as other sites in Arizona and New Mexico, documenting Native American life. Because Werntz was passionate about the American Southwest, he retained New Mexico artists such as Victor Higgins and William Penhallow Henderson to teach at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He died in 1944 on a trip to Mexico during World War II, when travel to Europe or Asia was impossible