Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, are bound for the lower Rio Grande Valley, where they hope to pick cotton. They are from Arkansas
May 1937
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: 19.2 × 24 cm (7 9/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 20.5 × 25.5 cm (8 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.110
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The Consolidated Freightways Collection, with Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1984; (sale, Christie's, New York, 19 December 2011); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1987
Road and Roadside: American Photographs 1930-1986: The Art Institute of Chicago, July 4, 1987- September 13, 1987
Inscriptions
on verso, by Dorothea Lange, lower center in graphite: Texas flood refugees / with their possessions / Dorothea Lange; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite perpendicular: P78; vertical along upper right edge in graphite: [illegible] / 500; center left in graphite: Lettan[?]; center in graphite inverted: 16907E; center right in graphite circled: Keep [illegible]; lower center in graphite: New print / cracks; vertical along lower right edge in graphite: 4996
Wikidata ID
Q64146859