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
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
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