Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California
1935
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: 35 × 26.9 cm (13 3/4 × 10 9/16 in.)
sheet: 36 × 28 cm (14 3/16 × 11 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.27
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, 25 March 2004; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1939
Lange, Dorothea, and Paul Schuster Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York, 1939: 140.
2002
Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 116.
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top left in black ink: LC2823C / Kern Co- / Bakersfield Dump; upper left in graphite: RETURN TO JOHN DIXON / 3 SCENIC DR. / ORINDA. CA. 94563; bottom right in graphite: RG10383
Wikidata ID
Q64146748