Roadside camp near Bakersfield, California
November 1935
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: 20.4 × 18.7 cm (8 1/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
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Accession
2016.191.50
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 20 January 2006; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: cNy; top center: #2003; top right: DOROTHEA LANGE / VINTAGE; upper center: RA 960-E; Resettlement Administration stamp, center in black ink: RESETTLEMENT ADMINISTRATION / DATE TAKEN [by Dorothea Lange in black ink: nov 1935] / NEGATIVE NO. [by unknown hand in graphite: RA-960-E] / PLACE [by Dorothea Lange in black ink: Roadside Camp near Bakersfield, Calif-] / TITLE [by Dorothea Lange in black ink: Come to California] / DESCRIPTIVE CAPTION / Credit Line- Lange for Resettlement Administration.; by unknown hand, center right circled in graphite: 3; by Dorothea Lange, lower center in black ink: The worldly possessions of Refugees / from Texas drought. dust and / depression [underlined]; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: 4; bottom center in graphite: DL3/1034
Wikidata ID
Q64146783