Egypt

1963

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image shows the upper portion of two women's faces. Both women are positioned closely to each other, filling most of the frame with their intense gazes directed toward the camera. The woman on the left shows her full face with defined features, while the woman on the right is partially obscured by a dark cloth. The background appears blurry with a light-colored wall.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; by descent to Helen Dixon, her daughter-in-law, CA, 1965. (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 8 May 2012; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2002

  • Keller, Judith. Dorothea Lange: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, 2002: 89.

2013

  • Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning: Her Lifetime in Photography. San Francisco, 2013: 178.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top left in black ink; EGYPT II - [illegible] / 194 [underlined]; top right in graphite circled: 5; center in black ink: 58270; center in graphite circled and crossed out ink black ink: 4C 6; bottom left in graphite: 39 RG 13001; bottom right on applied label in black ink: F56

Wikidata ID

Q64146887

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