LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gelatin silver print

Size Notes:

mount; image/sheet: 23.5 x 16 cm

Markings:

credit and titled by Marion Post Wolcott in ink (mount, recto); annotated 'FSA Photo (Vintage, original) by Dorothea Lange (signed by MPW) from the collection of Marion Post Wolcott' and 'Linda' in ink (mount, verso)

Exhibited:

Santa Clara, California, Art in a Corporate Context: Selections from Bay Area Collections , de Saisset Museum, April 11 - June 7, 1987

Literature:

George P. Elliot, Dorothea Lange, Doubleday/The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966, p. 25. Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life , Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1978, p. 213. Robert Coles, Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime , Aperture, New York, 1982, n.p. Sandra S. Phillips et al., Dorothea Lange: American Photographs , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1994, pl. 43. Elizabeth Partridge (ed.), Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1994, ill. 6.16., p. 108. Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange , Hallmark Cards, Inc./Harry N. Abrams, Kansas City, Missouri, 1995, p. 45

Provenance:

The Collection of Marion Post Wolcott (1910-1990); Ursula Gropper, Sausalito, California, 1985; Crossing America: Photographs from the Consolidated Freightways Collection , Part I, Christie's, New York, April 7, 2011, lot 251; Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, 2011