Nora Kenneally, widow, County Clare, Ireland
1954
Dorothea Lange
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: 22.6 × 28.5 cm (8 7/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
mount: 47.8 × 37.8 cm (18 13/16 × 14 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2016.191.88
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Series Title
The Irish Countryman
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; The Polaroid Collection, New York, June 1958; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 22 June 2010); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2023
Dorothea Lange: Seeing People, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, 2023 - 2024, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1996
Mullins, Gerry. Dorothea Lange's Ireland. Washington, 1996: 20.
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Dorothea Lange 1954; by Dorothea Lange, lower left in graphite: God Bless Nora Kennedy - from the series The Irish Countryman; on verso, center printed in black ink on applied label: DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY 8. CALIFORNIA; Polaroid Corporation label, center printed in black ink on applied label: PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION / OF POLAROID CORPORATION / CAMBRIDGE 39, Mass. / Title [printed in black ink: God Bless Nora Kennedy / from the series / The Irish Countryman] / Photographer [printed in black ink: DOROTHEA LANGE] / Process [printed in black ink: ENLARGEMENT] / Acquired [by unknown hand in black ink: June] 19 [by unknown hand in black ink: 58] No. [by unknown hand in black ink: 126] / This print is the property of the Polaroid Corporation, / and must not be reproduced in any fashion without the / consent of the Polaroid Corporation and the Photographer.
Wikidata ID
Q64146831