Near Coolidge, Arizona. Migratory cotton picker with his cotton sack slung over his shoulder rests at the scales before returning to work in the field. , November 1940, printed c. 1965

Not on View

gelatin silver print

image/

sheet: 31.5 × 41 cm (12 3/8 × 16 1/8 in.)

2016.191.89

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

on verso, artist's stamp, center in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA

(RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 5 March 2011; gift to NGA, 2016.

Susan Steinhauser

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