Mexican workers leaving for melon fields, Imperial Valley, California , June 1935, printed 1940s

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 45 × 58 cm (17 11/16 × 22 13/16 in.)

sheet: 50.2 × 67.5 cm (19 3/4 × 26 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.42

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, artist's stamp, stamped twice center right and lower left in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: DL-C-ILL-195

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA. (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 23 June 2005; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser

Bibliography

1978: Heyman, Therese Thau, and The Oakland Museum. Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange. Oakland, 1978: 63.

2002: Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 136–137.

2013: Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning: Her Lifetime in Photography. San Francisco, 2013: 69.