Migrant agricultural worker's family, Nipomo, California
March 1936
Artist, American, 1895 - 1965
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 26.67 × 34 cm (10 1/2 × 13 3/8 in.)
sheet: 27.94 × 35.56 cm (11 × 14 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.33
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; by descent to family of Dorothea Lange, CA, 1965. (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 9 September 2004; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1978
Heyman, Therese Thau, and The Oakland Museum. Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange. Oakland, 1978: 60.
1982
Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 20.
1994
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 42.
2009
Rubio, Oliva María, Sandra S. Phillips, Jack Von Euw, and Richard K. Doud, in collaboration with PHotoEspaña. Dorothea Lange: The Crucial Years, 1930–1946. Madrid, 2009: 14.
Inscriptions
on verso, center stamped in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: RG 12230 / DL-CAL-E+B 2752
Wikidata ID
Q64146762