Arkansas mother come to California for a new start, with husband and eleven children. Now a rural rehabilitation client. Tulare County, California, November 1938, printed c. 1960

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series Title

The American Country Woman

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 34.1 × 26.9 cm (13 7/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
mount: 49.5 × 39.5 cm (19 1/2 × 15 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.16

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: PF 25403

Provenance

Dorothea Lange's printer, 1960s; The Collection of Irwin Welcher; The Collection of Mick Ruxin, nephew of Welcher; (Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 19 June 2004; 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: 31.

1967: Newhall, Beaumont. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman. Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 1967: 61.

1982: Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 96.

1995: Davis, Keith F. The Photographs of Dorothea Lange. Kansas City, MO, 1995: 59.

2002: Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 58.