Formerly enslaved woman, Alabama
1938, printed 1950s
Artist, American, 1895 - 1965
Dorothea Lange
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24 × 18.75 cm (9 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 in.) -
Accession Number
2016.191.2
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, 29 December 2000; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite underlined: AnD; across top: "EX SLAVE WITH A LONG MEMORY"; top right: PC / # 2 1/2 / F11 / 6 sec; upper center in blue ink: 38164; bottom left corner on white label in graphite: F80
Wikidata ID
Q64146693