Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas, are bound for the lower Rio Grande Valley, where they hope to pick cotton. They are from Arkansas, May 1937

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19.2 × 24 cm (7 9/16 × 9 7/16 in.)

sheet: 20.5 × 25.5 cm (8 1/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.110

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, by Dorothea Lange, lower center in graphite: Texas flood refugees / with their possessions / Dorothea Lange; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite perpendicular: P78; vertical along upper right edge in graphite: [illegible] / 500; center left in graphite: Lettan[?]; center in graphite inverted: 16907E; center right in graphite circled: Keep [illegible]; lower center in graphite: New print / cracks; vertical along lower right edge in graphite: 4996

Provenance

The Consolidated Freightways Collection, with Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1984; (sale, Christie's, New York, 19 December 2011); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser

Exhibition History

1987: Road and Roadside: American Photographs 1930-1986: The Art Institute of Chicago, July 4, 1987- September 13, 1987