Woman from the Far West welcomes friends gathering on Memorial Day in the old cemetery of Berryessa Valley, California, 1956, printed no later than 1965

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series Title

The American Country Woman

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 25.4 × 28 cm (10 × 11 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.102

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, top left corner in graphite: 160; upper center underlined: 192.; lower right: 130; bottom left corner: E66.160.1; bottom center: DLA-00026-SP; bottom right corner: EMG68

Provenance

The Museum of Modern Art, New York. (Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 4 June 2011; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser

Exhibition History

1966: Dorothea Lange: The Museum of Modern Art, January 26-April 10, 1966

Bibliography

1982: Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 139.

1994: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 117.

2002: Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 201.

2008: Spirn, Anne Whiston. Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field. Chicago, 2008: 45.