Formerly enslaved woman, Alabama
1938, printed 1950s
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: 20.32 × 27.94 cm (8 × 11 in.)
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Accession
2016.191.58
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Swann Auction Galleries, New York, 21 October 2008); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1967
Newhall, Beaumont. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman. Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 1967: 55.
1982
Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 92.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, bottom left corner on image in black ink: Dorothea Lange; on verso, by unknown hand, upper right in black ink: negative number 38164; upper right in black ink, crossed out in blue ink: A; upper right in blue ink: 2; bottom right corner in black ink: 11 / of series; bottom right corner: A
Wikidata ID
Q64146792