Power farming displaces tenants from the land in the western dry cotton area, Childress County, Texas

June 1938, printed 1960s

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image shows a plowed field with deep furrows leading to a wooden house in the distance. The horizon is low in the composition, aligning with the roofline of the house. The image is in black and white, emphasizing textures and contrast between sky and earth tones.
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Artwork overview


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

Bibliography

1939

  • Lange, Dorothea, and Paul Schuster Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York, 1939: 73.

1966

  • Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange. Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966: 24.

1978

  • Meltzer, Milton. Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life. Toronto, 1978: 225.

1982

  • Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 83.

1985

  • Arrow, Jan. Dorothea Lange. London, 1985: n.p.

1994

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 82.

1995

  • Davis, Keith F. The Photographs of Dorothea Lange. Kansas City, MO, 1995: 73.

2002

  • Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 90.

2014

  • Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange. New York, 2014: 19.

Inscriptions

on verso, artist's stamp, center in black ink stamped twice: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA / TELEPHONE LANDSCAPE [illegible]; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: DLA-00093-SP

Wikidata ID

Q64146822

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