Migratory pea pickers, Nipomo, California, March 1936

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 19.4 × 24.5 cm (7 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.)

sheet: 20.3 × 25.7 cm (8 × 10 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser

Accession Number

2016.191.142

Artists / Makers

Dorothea Lange (artist) American, 1895 - 1965

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Inscription

on verso, by Dorothea Lange, top right in graphite inverted: Transients; by Dorothea Lange, upper center in graphite: Pea workers in Calif. / "Mam, I've picked near from / Calipatria to Ukiah, this / life is simplicity boiled / down.; top right printed in black ink: RA 1804C; by unknown hand, center in graphite: RA 1904C; lower center stamped in black ink: Kindly use the following credit line: / RESETTLEMENT ADMINISTRATION PHOTOGRAPH BY Lange [underlined]; bottom left in graphite: GCP23648; bottom center in graphite: PE77871-222

Provenance

(RoseGallery, Santa Monica, CA); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 22 November 2014; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Susan Steinhauser

Bibliography

2002: Keller, Judith. Dorothea Lange: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, 2002: 27.