Stenographer with mended stockings, San Francisco, California

1934, printed c. 1960

Dorothea Lange

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Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image shows a close-up view of a person's legs crossed at the ankles. The person's legs are clad in stockings with a seam running along the back. The person is seated, with their skirt and a coat or outer garment draping down, partially visible in frame. They are wearing shoes with a woven, basket-like pattern, with straps crossing over the top of the foot and wrapping around the ankle. The scene is set indoors on a carpeted floor.
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Provenance

(sale, Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas, TX, 27 November 2016); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

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Inscriptions

on verso, center stamped in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA / TELEPHONE LANDSCAPE 4-3880; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: DL-CAL- [illegible] 697

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