Grain elevator on the Texas Panhandle plains, Everett, Texas

June 1938, printed c. 1960s

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image shows an industrial building, likely a grain elevator, from a frontal view, centered in the composition. The building stands tall against a vast, open sky with a low horizon mostly obscured by the structure. The sky is clear, contrasting with the detailed texture of the building's siding. The photo's palette is monochromatic with varying shades of gray. The lines of the building are crisp, emphasizing the simplicity and strength of the architecture. The vertical emphasis of the building draws the eye upward, with small posts in the distance running parallel to the horizon.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

  • Dimensions

    image: 30.3 × 25.1 cm (11 15/16 × 9 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 35.2 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 10 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.191.133

  • Series Title

    An American Exodus

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The Dixon Family Collection, CA; (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 11 February 2013; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1939

  • Lange, Dorothea, and Paul Schuster Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York, 1939: 90.

1982

  • Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 107.

1994

  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 107.

2002

  • Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 99.

2014

  • Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange. New York, 2014: 47.

Inscriptions

on verso, artist's stamp, center in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: DL-C-ILL-II-018

Wikidata ID

Q64146899

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