Young migratory mother, originally from Texas. On the day before the photograph was made, she and her husband traveled 35 miles each way to pick peas. They worked 5 hours each and together earned $2.25. They have two young children...Live in auto camp, Edison, Kern County, California, April 11, 1940, printed c. 1950s

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series Title

The American Country Woman

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24 × 18.75 cm (9 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

sheet: 25.4 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.22

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, lower center stamped in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand, bottom right, in graphite: RG 12234; bottom right, along edge: NY - DL - 364; bottom right corner, along edge: MDL.104.Y

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; by descent to family of Dorothea Lange, CA, 1965; (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 20 March 2004; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser

Bibliography

1967: Newhall, Beaumont. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman. Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 1967: 33.

1994: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 41.

2002: Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 102.