Filipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas Valley, California

June 1935, printed 1940s

Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; by descent to John Dixon, her son, Orinda, CA, 1965; (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 29 December 2000; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2001

  • Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000: Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art, October 22, 2000- February 25, 2001

Bibliography

1939

  • Lange, Dorothea, and Paul Schuster Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York, 1939: 133.

1982

  • Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 70.

1985

  • Arrow, Jan. Dorothea Lange. London, 1985: n.p.

1994

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 30.

2002

  • Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 92.

2014

  • Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange. New York, 2014: 25.

Inscriptions

on verso, collector's label, top left printed in black ink on applied label: This print is from the / estate of the artist and / was in her collection at / the time of her death. / [signed in black ink] John Dixon / John Dixon / Son of Dorothea Lange; by unknown hand, center left in red crayon: 38263; by unknown hand, center in graphite: 17 [illegible]; by unknown hand, center right in graphite crossed out: Where’s the neg?; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: F98; by unknown hand, vertical along right edge in graphite: Amer Exodus 133

Wikidata ID

Q64146714


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