Maynard Dixon (Smoking Cigarette)

c. 1930

Dorothea Lange

Associated Names
Dorothea Lange

Artist, American, 1895 - 1965

The image depicts a black and white portrait of a man from the waist up. He is slightly angled to the side but faces forward. His right hand is raised to his mouth, with fingers touching his lips. The man has a mustache, short hair swept to the side, and wears a dark suit jacket over a light-colored shirt and a loosely tied dark tie. The background is a plain, softly lit surface. The focus is on the man's facial expression and pose.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; by descent to her son John Dixon, Orinda, CA; his wife Lolita Doppelt-Dixon; by descent to Yana Leventon, San Francisco, 2021; NGA purchase (through Richard Moore Photographs, Oakland, CA), 2022.

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Exhibition History

2023

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

Inscriptions

on verso, possibly by artist, bottom left in graphite: DDL210

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