Police Wagon, Oakland, California

1957

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

This is a photograph of the back of a police vehicle. The image shows the rear doors of a police vehicle with the word "POLICE" in bold letters. The doors are dented and show signs of wear. A portion of the license plate reads "California". The lighting highlights the texture and imperfections of the vehicle.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

  • Dimensions

    image: 28.5 × 26.7 cm (11 1/4 × 10 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 35.3 × 28 cm (13 7/8 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.191.30

  • Series Title

    The Public Defender, Oakland, California

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Phillips de Pury and Luxembourg, New York, 17 October 2003); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1966

  • Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange. Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966: 77.

1982

  • Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 148.

1994

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 121.

1995

  • Davis, Keith F. The Photographs of Dorothea Lange. Kansas City, MO, 1995: 99.

2002

  • Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 218.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: AMD; artist's stamp, center in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand, center in graphite circled: 57100; by unknown hand, center in graphite: P1 1/2 f 11/7

Wikidata ID

Q64146752

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