Church in shacktown community. It is used by different sects, including Pentecostal. The curtains are made of flour sacks, near Modesto, Stanislaus County, California
May 10, 1940
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 × 24 cm (7 1/2 × 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 20.1 × 25.1 cm (7 15/16 × 9 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.189.8
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; by descent to John Dixon, her son, Orinda, CA, 1965; Bruce and Nancy Berman, Los Angeles (through RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); (sale, Phillips, New York, 5 October 2016); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, center left in blue ink perpendicular: BAE — 231, 002 / DL No. 41382 [circled]; center in blue ink: NOTE THAT "THE YANKS ARE NOT COMING" STICKER / IS IN THE PROPHESY TABARNACLE [sic] WINDOW. / (SEE CLOSEUP — Neg 35001); by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: DLB005