Young girl looks up from her work. She picks and sacks potatoes on large-scale ranch, Edison, Kern County, California

April 11, 1940

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image shows the upper body of a person facing the camera. The person is standing with one arm raised to shield their eyes, casting a shadow over their face with a gloved hand. The person has a smile and a youthful complexion, with short, light-colored hair mostly hidden beneath a hat with a checkered pattern. They wear a button-up shirt with visible seams. In the background, there is a clear sky and a flat landscape.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Reader's Digest Collection, New York; (sale, Swann Auction Galleries, New York, 4 April 2012); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • "A Photographic Treasury: Images of Children by Master Photographers from the Reader's Digest Art Collection": Widener University Art Gallery, Chester, PA, January 15 - March 1, 2008

2023

  • Dorothea Lange: Seeing People, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, 2023 - 2024, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top right in blue ink: 35219 (?); center right on angle in graphite: AuR; bottom left corner: DL011; bottom left: #72513

Wikidata ID

Q64146864

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