Church on the Great Plains, South Dakota

1941, printed c. 1965

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image shows a low-angle view of a vast field. In the foreground, there is a grassland with gray and brown tones. In the distance, a church building sits atop a hill with a cloudy gray sky in the background.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The Museum of Modern Art, New York; (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 9 September 2004; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • Dorothea Lange: The Museum of Modern Art, January 26-April 10, 1966

Bibliography

1982

  • Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 97.

1995

  • Davis, Keith F. The Photographs of Dorothea Lange. Kansas City, MO, 1995: 79.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: 158; center in graphite underlined and crossed out: 11.; center in graphite: (153); lower center in graphite: 81; bottom left in graphite: E66.158.1; bottom right in graphite: RG11550

Wikidata ID

Q64146753

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