Formerly enslaved woman, Alabama, 1938, printed 1950s

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series Title

The American Country Woman

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image/

sheet: 20.32 × 27.94 cm (8 × 11 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.58

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

Image Use

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Inscription

signed by artist, bottom left corner on image in black ink: Dorothea Lange; on verso, by unknown hand, upper right in black ink: negative number 38164; upper right in black ink, crossed out in blue ink: A; upper right in blue ink: 2; bottom right corner in black ink: 11 / of series; bottom right corner: A

Provenance

(sale, Swann Auction Galleries, New York, 21 October 2008); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser

Bibliography

1967: Newhall, Beaumont. Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman. Fort Worth and Los Angeles, 1967: 55.

1982: Hoffman, Michael E., ed. Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime. New York, 1982: 92.