Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer. San Joaquin Valley, California

February 1936, printed c. 1965

Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 10 July 2004; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

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

Bibliography

1966

  • Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange. Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966: 26.

1978

  • Meltzer, Milton. Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life. Toronto, 1978: 120.

1982

  • Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 63.

1994

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 14.

2002

  • Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 85.

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: 48.

2014

  • Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange. New York, 2014: 57.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, center in graphite underlined: 91.; lower left in graphite circled: 51; bottom left in graphite: E66.81.1; bottom right in graphite: RG11552

Wikidata ID

Q64146768

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