Member of the congregation of Wheeley's church who is called "Queen." She is wearing the old fashioned type of sunbonnet. Her dress and apron were made at home. Near Gordonton, North Carolina, July 1939, printed no later than 1965

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series Title

The American Country Woman

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 38.7 × 31.9 cm (15 1/4 × 12 9/16 in.)

sheet: 39.5 × 34.1 cm (15 9/16 × 13 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.103

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

by unknown hand, top right in graphite: No 4; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: 8500; center in graphite: 4.; bottom left in graphite: W66.1.2; bottom center in graphite: INV#DLA-00006-SP; bottom right in graphite: EHG172

Provenance

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. (Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 4 June 2011; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser

Exhibition History

1966: Dorothea Lange: The Museum of Modern Art, January 26-April 10, 1966

Bibliography

1967: Newhall, Beaumont. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman. Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 1967: 17.

2008: Spirn, Anne Whiston. Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field. Chicago, 2008: 135.

2009: Rubio, Oliva María, Sandra S. Phillips, Jack Von Euw, and Richard K. Doud, in collaboration with PHotoEspaña. Dorothea Lange: The Crucial Years, 1930–1946. Madrid, 2009: 60.