Nettie Featherston, wife of a migratory laborer with three children, near Childress, Texas
June 1938
Artist, American, 1895 - 1965
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 34 × 26.8 cm (13 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)
sheet: 35.2 × 28 cm (13 7/8 × 11 in.)
mount: 45.4 × 38.3 cm (17 7/8 × 15 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.5
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; The Dixon Family Collection, CA. Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1939
Lange, Dorothea, and Paul Schuster Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York, 1939: 101.
1966
Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange. Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966: 38.
1967
Newhall, Beaumont. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman. Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 1967: 29.
1978
Heyman, Therese Thau, and The Oakland Museum. Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange. Oakland, 1978: 80.
1982
Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 80.
1994
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 83.
2002
Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 91.
2013
Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning: Her Lifetime in Photography. San Francisco, 2013: 95.
Wikidata ID
Q64146696