Japanese American-owned grocery store, Oakland, California
March 1942
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: 19 × 24.45 cm (7 1/2 × 9 5/8 in.)
sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.) -
Accession
2016.191.134
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 22 January 2013; gift to NGA, 2016.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1994
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 87.
Inscriptions
on verso, signed by artist, center perpendicular in graphite: Dorothea Lange; upper center in blue ink: Picture #35 group 1. / see caption sheet / Dorothea Lange / 1163 Euclid Ave / Berkeley; top left in graphite: Pre - Evacuation; by unknown hand, top center in blue ink: (WPA file - Nat .Arch.); perpendicular along bottom right edge in graphite: OA13248
Wikidata ID
Q64146900