Edison, Kern County, California. Young migratory mother, originally from Texas. On the day before the
photograph was made, she and her husband traveled 35 miles each way to pick peas. They worked 5 hours each and together earned $2.25. They have two young children . . . Live in auto camp.
1941, printed 1950s
Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 30.1 × 24 cm (11 7/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
mount: 30.8 × 24 cm (12 1/8 × 9 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.36
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; private collection, CA; (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 16 September 2004; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1967
Newhall, Beaumont. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman. Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 1967: 33.
1994
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 41.
2002
Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 102.
Inscriptions
on verso, artist's stamp, center left in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: RG 10\62
Wikidata ID
Q64146765