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

Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

Dorothea Lange

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

  • 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 Number

    2016.191.36

  • Series Title

    The American Country Woman

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

Exhibition History

2023

  • Dorothea Lange: Seeing People, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, 2023 - 2024, unnumbered catalogue.

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

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