LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Gelatin silver print, likely an early print

Measurements:

9.37 in. (23.80 cm.) (height) by 7.13 in. (18.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Credited, dated and captioned '32 yr. old migrant pea picker, mother of 11 children in an unidentified hand in ink on the reverse of the flush-mount

Exhibited:

A History of Women Photographers, New York Public Library, 19 October 1996 - 4 January 1997, and traveling to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and Akron Museum of Art through November 1997 The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 23 April - 22 August 1999 Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, 2 May 2016 - 31 January 2017

Literature:

Pier 24 Photography, Collected, p. 108 (this print) Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, p. 248 (this print) San Francisco News, March 11, 1936 'Draggin'- Around People,' Survey Graphic, September 1936 Szarkowski, Phillips, and Heyman, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs, back cover and pl. 43 The Museum of Modern Art, Dorothea Lange, p. 25 Aperture, Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime, p. 77 Borhan, Dorothea Lange: Heart and Mind of a Photographer, p. 133 Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange, p. 45 Keller, In Focus: Dorothea Lange, Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum, pl. 13 Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life, cover and p. 213 NBC Editions, Dorothea Lange: The Human Face, p. 99 Partridge, Restless Spirit: The Life and Work of Dorothea Lange, p. 4 Partridge, Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life, pl. 6.16

Provenance:

Page Imageworks, San Francisco, 1992