Former tenant farmer on relief grant in the Imperial Valley, California
March 1937
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/sheet: 9.5 × 9 cm (3 3/4 × 3 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2016.191.49
More About this Artwork
Video: Photograph Like a Great: Dorothea Lange
Washington, D.C. artist and native Dee Dwyer attempts to recreate the emotion and impact of Dorothea Lange's memorable photographs in her own work.
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; The Lange Family Collection, CA; (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York); (Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 25 January 2006; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1982
Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 24.
2002
Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 130.
Inscriptions
on verso, artist's stamp, center in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA
Wikidata ID
Q64146782