Filipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas Valley, California

June 1935, printed 1940s

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

This is a photograph of a field of leafy plants being cultivated. The image depicts a row of individuals working in the field, hoeing or harvesting heads of lettuce or a similar leafy crop. The perspective is low to the ground, emphasizing the texture and pattern of the earth and rows of plants in the foreground. The photograph is in sepia or black and white, adding to a vintage quality. The lighting is soft and diffused, suggesting an overcast sky.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; by descent to John Dixon, her son, Orinda, CA, 1965; (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 29 December 2000; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2001

  • Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000: Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art, October 22, 2000- February 25, 2001

Bibliography

1939

  • Lange, Dorothea, and Paul Schuster Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York, 1939: 133.

1982

  • Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 70.

1985

  • Arrow, Jan. Dorothea Lange. London, 1985: n.p.

1994

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 30.

2002

  • Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 92.

2014

  • Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange. New York, 2014: 25.

Inscriptions

on verso, collector's label, top left printed in black ink on applied label: This print is from the / estate of the artist and / was in her collection at / the time of her death. / [signed in black ink] John Dixon / John Dixon / Son of Dorothea Lange; by unknown hand, center left in red crayon: 38263; by unknown hand, center in graphite: 17 [illegible]; by unknown hand, center right in graphite crossed out: Where’s the neg?; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: F98; by unknown hand, vertical along right edge in graphite: Amer Exodus 133

Wikidata ID

Q64146714

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