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
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: 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 Number
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