Child of Impoverished Black Tenant Family Working on Farm, Alabama
July 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: 20 × 19.2 cm (7 7/8 × 7 9/16 in.)
sheet: 25.4 × 20.2 cm (10 × 7 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.39
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; Time, Inc. (John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 21 January 2005; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, by artist, lower center in graphite: Child of negro Tenant farmer [underlined in blue pencil] family, / Alabama.; by unknown hand, top left in blue pencil: CHILD LABOR; top center in graphite: VINTAGE 6791; top left in right in graphite: Child Labor; upper center and center stamped twice in red ink inverted: RETURN TO: / TIME, INC. / FILE; by unknown hand, center in graphite: Ra9261-E; lower left stamped in black ink: Kindly use the following credit line: / RESETTLEMENT ADMINISTRATION PHOTOGRAPH BY: Lange [underlined]; lower center stamped in red ink: OCT 21 1937; by unknown hand, lower left in blue pencil: [X and check mark] Photograph by- Lange, Dorothea / [X and check mark] COTTON- FARMING- US / [X and check mark] AGRICULTURE- FARMERS- AMER- NEGRO; lower center printed in black ink inverted: CHILD LABOR
Wikidata ID
Q64146769