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
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: 34.1 × 26.9 cm (13 7/16 × 10 9/16 in.)
mount: 49.5 × 39.5 cm (19 1/2 × 15 9/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.16
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: PF 25403
Wikidata ID
Q64146731