May Day, San Francisco, California, 1934, printed c. 1960s

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24 × 19 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)

sheet: 25.4 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.78

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, center stamped in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: DLA-00072-SP; bottom right corner: DL-C-ILL-107

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; private collection, New York; (Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 20 October 2009; 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: 47.

1982: Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 53.

2002: Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 76.

2013: Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning: Her Lifetime in Photography. San Francisco, 2013: 55.