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Dorothea Lange

Highway to the West: U.S. Route 54 in southern New Mexico , 1938

East Building, Ground Level — Gallery 106-A

series Title

An American Exodus

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19 × 23.9 cm (7 1/2 × 9 7/16 in.)

sheet: 20.2 × 25.2 cm (7 15/16 × 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.90

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, artist's stamp in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: DL-CAL-ETB-338

Provenance

(RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 5 March 2011; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser

Bibliography

1939: Lange, Dorothea, and Paul Schuster Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York, 1939: 65.

1966: Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange. Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966: 53.

1982: Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 113.

1994: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 12.

1995: Davis, Keith F. The Photographs of Dorothea Lange. Kansas City, MO, 1995: 37.

2002: Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 151.

2002: Keller, Judith. Dorothea Lange: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, 2002: 43.

2008: Spirn, Anne Whiston. Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field. Chicago, 2008: 37.

2009: Rubio, Oliva María, Sandra S. Phillips, Jack Von Euw, and Richard K. Doud, in collaboration with PHotoEspaña. Dorothea Lange: The Crucial Years, 1930–1946. Madrid, 2009: 182–183.

2014: Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange. New York, 2014: 45.