On the Great Plains, near Winner, South Dakota

1941

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image shows a landscape with a series of churches. A wooden church with a tilted steeple is in the foreground, supported by a wooden pole. Further back, two more churches with distinct steeples are visible in an open grassland. The horizon is low, emphasizing the sky filled with clouds. The color palette is monochrome, highlighting light and shadow contrasts. The texture of the wooden churches and grass adds depth, and the image has a slight graininess reminiscent of traditional film photography.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; by descent to family of Dorothea Lange, CA, 1965; (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 8 May 2012; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1966

  • Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange. Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966: 52.

1982

  • Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 123.

1985

  • Arrow, Jan. Dorothea Lange. London, 1985: n.p.

1994

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 112.

2013

  • Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning: Her Lifetime in Photography. San Francisco, 2013: 132.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top center in graphite, partially erased: OZ / P102; artist's stamp, center in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE/ 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY/ CALIFORNIA / TELEPHONE LANDSCAPE 4-3880

Wikidata ID

Q64146868

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