Scene along "Skid Row," Howard Street, San Francisco, California

February 1937

Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

  • Dimensions

    image: 26.7 × 34.2 cm (10 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 28 × 35.2 cm (11 × 13 7/8 in.)
    mount: 28 × 38.4 cm (11 × 15 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.189.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 25 January 2016; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1994

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 7.

1995

  • Davis, Keith F. The Photographs of Dorothea Lange. Kansas City, MO, 1995: 33.

2009

  • Rubio, Oliva María, Sandra S. Phillips, Jack Von Euw, and Richard K. Doud, in collaboration with PHotoEspaña. Dorothea Lange: The Crucial Years, 1930–1946. Madrid, 2009: 36.

Inscriptions

on verso, possibly by artist, upper right in blue ink perpendicular: ca. 1932-34 / San Francisco; by unknown hand, center in graphite: DRD; center right perpendicular: (#2 - pair) / LC-16160 [circled]; lower left perpendicular: GCP26711 DIXON-452; bottom center: GCP 26711

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