Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California

November 1938, printed later

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image shows a person picking cotton in a field. The individual is captured from the side, bent over with their full body visible. Their face is not shown clearly due to the angle and shadows, but their short hair is visible. The person is dressed in a denim jacket and pants, and carries a large bag over their shoulder. The scene is set in a cotton field with the sky in the background.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 21 April 2004; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2023

  • Dorothea Lange: Seeing People, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, 2023 - 2024, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1939

  • Lange, Dorothea, and Paul Schuster Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York, 1939: 18.

2002

  • Keller, Judith. Dorothea Lange: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, 2002: 37.

Inscriptions

on verso of mount, by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: PF31735

Wikidata ID

Q64146750

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