Dispossessed Arkansas farmers. These people are resettling themselves on the dump outside of Bakersfield, California , 1935

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series Title

An American Exodus

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 24.1 × 18.8 cm (9 1/2 × 7 3/8 in.)

sheet: 25.3 × 20.7 cm (9 15/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.94

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, by unknown hand, center in graphite: 2328-C; handwritten by Marion Post Wolcott, lower center in graphite: This image was photographed by / Dorothea Lange, + has been in my / personal collection, acquired from / FSA in 1939-40. / Marion Post Wolcott / Original vintage FSA print.

Provenance

The Collection of Marion Post Wolcott, 1939-40; The Collection of Ursula Gropper, Sausalito, CA, 1985; (sale, Christie's, New York, 7 April 2011); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser

Bibliography

1939: Lange, Dorothea, and Paul Schuster Taylor. An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. New York, 1939: 140.

2002: Borhan, Pierre. Dorothea Lange, the Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, 2002: 116.