Calipatra (vicinity), California. Native of Indiana in a migratory labor contractor's camp. "It's root hog or die for us folks."

February 1937

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image shows a person standing with a shovel in an outdoor, rural setting. The individual is wearing gloves, a cap, a button-up shirt, and trousers. The person has distinct facial features and appears focused while leaning forward with the shovel in hand.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Exhibition History

2023

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

Inscriptions

on verso, by Dorothea Lange, center in black ink: Native of Indiana: "It's Root, hog, or die / for us folks" / California, Feb. '37; upper center printed in black ink: In a migratory labor contractor's camp near / Calipatria, California, February 24, 1937. / Migration has brought to a focus the distress of large numbers of American workers.; by unknown hand, center in graphite: Ra 16119-C; bottom center in graphite: DLA-00075-SP; bottom right in graphite: DL-GEM-011

Wikidata ID

Q64146820

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