Unemployed man, San Francisco, California

1934

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image shows a man sitting on a large barrel, reading a magazine. He is wearing a hat and casual clothing. Behind him, there are two bags on the ground and a plaid fabric against the barrel. In the background, there are three men in an industrial setting with debris and construction materials.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; by descent to John Dixon, her son, Orinda, CA, 1965. (RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 31 January 2014; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2023

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

Bibliography

2013

  • Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning: Her Lifetime in Photography. San Francisco, 2013: 50.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: J112; center in graphite: 34018-2; artist's stamp, center in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; bottom left in graphite: GCP24942; bottom center in graphite: 7.; bottom right in graphite: DIXEIL 36

Wikidata ID

Q64146905

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