Hutterite Bible, west of Vermillion, South Dakota

1941

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image displays an opened book on a white cloth-covered table against a textured, cracked wall. The color palette is grayscale. The book is centrally positioned on the table, with the left side slightly raised, casting shadows on the fabric below it. The wall in the background shows cracks and patterns.
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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; The Dixon Family Collection, CA; Bruce and Nancy Berman, Los Angeles (through RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); (sale, Christie's, New York, 7 October 2011); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1995

  • Davis, Keith F. The Photographs of Dorothea Lange. Kansas City, MO, 1995: 101.

2013

  • Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning: Her Lifetime in Photography. San Francisco, 2013: 133.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: UTAH; upper right in graphite: Dee would / love this; center right in blue ink circled: neg. 41041; center in graphite crossed out in blue ink: 42041; lower center in graphite inverted: Vgn #1 / F/5.6 / 10 sec; lower left in graphite perpendicular: #150

Wikidata ID

Q64146844

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