Mexican workers leaving for melon fields, Imperial 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. (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 23 June 2005; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1978

  • Heyman, Therese Thau, and The Oakland Museum. Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange. Oakland, 1978: 63.

2002

  • Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 136–137.

2013

  • Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning: Her Lifetime in Photography. San Francisco, 2013: 69.

Inscriptions

on verso, artist's stamp, stamped twice center right and lower left in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: DL-C-ILL-195

Wikidata ID

Q64146774


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