Mexican workers leaving for melon fields, Imperial Valley, California
June 1935, printed 1940s
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: 45 × 58 cm (17 11/16 × 22 13/16 in.)
sheet: 50.2 × 67.5 cm (19 3/4 × 26 9/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.42
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