Migrant Mother series
March 1936, printed 1960s
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: 4.13 × 23.18 cm (1 5/8 × 9 1/8 in.)
sheet: 20.5 × 25 cm (8 1/16 × 9 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.117
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; by descent to Helen Dixon, her daughter-in-law, CA, 1965; (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 8 May 2012; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, center perpendicular in graphite: 16; bottom right corner: #51
Wikidata ID
Q64146869