Formerly enslaved woman, Alabama
1938, printed c. 1955
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: 24 × 19 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
sheet: 25 × 20 cm (9 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.84
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA. (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York); (Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 23 March 2010; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1966
Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange. Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966: 43.
1967
Newhall, Beaumont. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman. Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 1967: 53.
1978
Meltzer, Milton. Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life. Toronto, 1978: 118.
1982
Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 93.
1994
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 62.
2013
Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning: Her Lifetime in Photography. San Francisco, 2013: 103.
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top right corner in graphite: AN1050; center stamped in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA / TELEPHONE LANDSCAPE 4-3880
Wikidata ID
Q64146826