Migratory workers harvesting peas near Nipomo, California
spring 1937
Dorothea Lange
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: 19.4 × 24.5 cm (7 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
sheet: 20.6 × 25.4 cm (8 1/8 × 10 in.) -
Accession Number
2017.162.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Richard Moore Photographs, Oakland, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 9 February 2015; gift to NGA, 2017.
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 Dorothea Lange, center in graphite inverted: Bean [crossed out] workers- in pea fields / California; by unknown hand, top right in graphite inverted: C0932; FSA stamp, upper left in black ink inverted: PLEASE CREDIT / F.S.A. / FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION / PHOTO BY: LANGE; upper center stamped in black ink: [illegible] Avenue / New York 16, N.Y. / This Picture is loaned for / one reproduction only. Must not / be used for advertising without / written permission. / Original must be returned / within 30 days.; upper right stamped in black ink inverted: PLEASE NOTE / Kindly [return] / to the [illegible] / Farm Security Administration, / Washington, D.C.; center right stamped in black ink: CULVER PICTURES, INC. / 150 WEST 22ND STREET #300 / NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10011-2421 / (212) 645-1672; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite inverted: 1630-9-C; by unknown hand, bottom left in blue pencil inverted: 38
Wikidata ID
Q64146910