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1956, printed no later than 1965

Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64146849

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