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Dorothea Lange

Migrant agricultural worker's family, Nipomo, California, February 1936

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 34 × 26.5 cm (13 3/8 × 10 7/16 in.)

sheet: 35.56 × 27.94 cm (14 × 11 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.3

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, center stamped in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: DL-CAL-E+B 16

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA. (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 3 March 2001; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser

Bibliography

1966: Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange. Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966: 25.

1978: Heyman, Therese Thau, and The Oakland Museum. Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange. Oakland, 1978: 60.

1978: Meltzer, Milton. Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life. Toronto, 1978: 213.

1982: Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 77.

1994: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 43.

1995: Davis, Keith F. The Photographs of Dorothea Lange. Kansas City, MO, 1995: 45.

1996: Mullins, Gerry. Dorothea Lange's Ireland. Washington, 1996: 117.

2002: Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 133.

2002: Keller, Judith. Dorothea Lange: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, 2002: 33.

2008: Spirn, Anne Whiston. Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field. Chicago, 2008: 9.

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: 107.

2013: Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning: Her Lifetime in Photography. San Francisco, 2013: 83.

2014: Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange. New York, 2014: 31.