Farm wife lives on the Great Plains. Nebraska

1940

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image shows an older woman seated on a wooden chair. She is sitting sideways facing the camera with one arm resting on the back of the chair and the other hand resting on her lap. She has short, neatly combed hair and is giving a gentle smile. The woman is wearing a patterned dress that combines polka dots and floral designs, along with dark laced shoes. In the background, there is a bookshelf filled with books and papers, a patterned rug on the floor, and a simple textured wall. A shadow is cast on the wall from the chair, and a framed picture hangs on the wall above the woman's head.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 25.2 × 20.2 cm (9 15/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
    mount: 27 × 23.5 cm (10 5/8 × 9 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.191.73

  • Series Title

    The American Country Woman

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; private collection, CA; (Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 20 October 2009; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2023

  • Dorothea Lange: Seeing People, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, 2023 - 2024, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1967

  • Newhall, Beaumont. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman. Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 1967: 21.

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, top right in graphite: 3; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: spc10558; artist's stamp, lower center in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; bottom center in graphite: DLA-00042-SP; bottom right in graphite: DL-C-ILL-214

Wikidata ID

Q64146812

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