Member of the congregation of Wheeley's church who is called "Queen." She is wearing the old fashioned type of sunbonnet. Her dress and apron were made at home. Near Gordonton, North Carolina
July 1939, printed no later than 1965
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: 38.7 × 31.9 cm (15 1/4 × 12 9/16 in.)
sheet: 39.5 × 34.1 cm (15 9/16 × 13 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.103
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
1967
Newhall, Beaumont. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman. Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 1967: 17.
2008
Spirn, Anne Whiston. Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field. Chicago, 2008: 135.
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: 60.
Inscriptions
by unknown hand, top right in graphite: No 4; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: 8500; center in graphite: 4.; bottom left in graphite: W66.1.2; bottom center in graphite: INV#DLA-00006-SP; bottom right in graphite: EHG172
Wikidata ID
Q64146850