Nettie Featherston, wife of a migratory laborer with three children, near Childress, Texas
June 1938, printed c. 1950s
Artist, American, 1895 - 1965
Dorothea Lange
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24 × 19 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 in.) -
Accession Number
2016.191.25
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA. (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 20 March 2004; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2023
Dorothea Lange: Seeing People, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, 2023 - 2024, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1982
Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 103.
2002
Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 124.
Inscriptions
on verso, center right stamped on angle in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand, bottom left corner in graphite: 5pc 10330; bottom right corner: DL-C-ILL-088
Wikidata ID
Q64146746