Black sharecropper with twenty acres. He receives eight cents a day for hoeing cotton. Brazos riverbottoms, near Bryan, Texas
June 1938, printed c. 1950
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: 24.1 × 19.2 cm (9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.)
sheet: 25.3 × 20.5 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.119
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 8 May 2012, 8 May 2012; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, artist's stamp, center in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: SPCIO436; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: qcP13256; bottom center in graphite: F295848; bottom right in graphite: BSG.#449.1a
Wikidata ID
Q64146871