Migratory cotton picker, Eloy, Arizona , 1940, printed 1950s

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 18.42 × 22.9 cm (7 1/4 × 9 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.29

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, top center in red pencil: c III 6/5; center typed in black ink on white paper: LANGE MOMA 473.59 / He has picked cotton all day and / stands at the edge of the field by the / cotton wagon. Eloy, Ariz= 1940; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: Dorothea Lange / Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona 1940 (BAE)

Provenance

(RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 4 June 2004; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser

Bibliography

1966: Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange. Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966: 28.

1978: Heyman, Therese Thau, and The Oakland Museum. Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange. Oakland, 1978: 47.

1982: Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 122.

1994: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 32.

1995: Davis, Keith F. The Photographs of Dorothea Lange. Kansas City, MO, 1995: 55.

2002: Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 135.

2013: Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning: Her Lifetime in Photography. San Francisco, 2013: 92–93.

2014: Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange. New York, 2014: 51.