Formerly enslaved woman, Alabama, 1938, printed c. 1955

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series Title

The American Country Woman

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24 × 19 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)

sheet: 25 × 20 cm (9 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.84

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, top right corner in graphite: AN1050; center stamped in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA / TELEPHONE LANDSCAPE 4-3880

Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA. (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York); (Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 23 March 2010; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser

Bibliography

1966: Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange. Exh. cat. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966: 43.

1967: Newhall, Beaumont. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman. Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 1967: 53.

1978: Meltzer, Milton. Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life. Toronto, 1978: 118.

1982: Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 93.

1994: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. Exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1994: pl. 62.

2013: Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning: Her Lifetime in Photography. San Francisco, 2013: 103.