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

1935

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image depicts a woman behind a wooden structure, facing slightly left with her head turned towards the camera. She has prominent cheekbones, dark hair pulled back, and a serious expression. She wears a button-up cardigan with a patterned hem over a shirt with a visible collar. Her hands rest on the horizontal wooden beams in front of her. Above her is another person in a dark jacket, with their hands on the roof of the wooden structure. The background shows trees and sky in an out-of-focus setting.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

  • Dimensions

    image: 35 × 26.9 cm (13 3/4 × 10 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 36 × 28 cm (14 3/16 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.191.27

  • Series Title

    An American Exodus

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

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