Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California, 1935

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series Title

An American Exodus

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 35 × 26.9 cm (13 3/4 × 10 9/16 in.)

sheet: 36 × 28 cm (14 3/16 × 11 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.27

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

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

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

Susan Steinhauser

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.