Anne Carter Johnson, St. George, Utah

1953

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image shows the upper part of a person's body from the waist up, with a focus on their arms and hands. The individual is standing upright, with both arms extended forward, holding a pair of small leather baby shoes with the laces tied together. The person's skin appears wrinkled, and veins are visible on the arms. They are wearing a striped apron with a pocket on the right side. The background is a textured stone or brick wall, with shadows cast by the hands and shoes on the apron.
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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.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, lower right in graphite circled: D80; bottom left in graphite: GCP24945; bottom right in graphite: Dixon-475

Wikidata ID

Q64146906

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