Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
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May 1, 11:36 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Dorothea Lange
1895 - 1965
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
oversized gelatin silver print, the photographer's '1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California' stamp on the reverse, framed, 1936, probably printed in the 1940s
image: 23 by 18 in. (58.4 by 45.7 cm.)
frame: 35 by 29¼ in. (88.9 by 74.3 cm.)
Private collection, California
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2005
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022
Photographers Looking at Photographs: 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 33 (this print)
Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), pp. 237–9 (this print)
Archibald MacLeish, ed., Land of the Free (London and New York, 1938), pl. 8
"The Assignment I'll Never Forget: Migrant Mother," Popular Photographs, February 1960
John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 25
Therese Thau Heyman, Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange (The Oakland Museum, 1978), p. 61
Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (Aperture, 1982), p. 77
Dorothea Lange: Eloquent Witness (Chicago: Edwynn Houk Gallery, 1989), p. 37
Sarah Greenough, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography (Washington, D. C., and Chicago: National Gallery of Art, Washington and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989), cat. no. 284
Therese Thau Heyman, Sandra S. Phillips, and John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994), pl. 1
Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Kansas City, 1995), p. 45
Peter Galassi, American Photography 1890-1965 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995), p. 148
Dorothea Lange: The Human Face (Aosta, 1998), p. 99
Barbara Haskell, The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-1950 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999), pl. 481
Mark Durden, Dorothea Lange 55 (New York, 2001), cover and unpaginated
Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer (Boston, 2002), p. 133
Weston Naef, Photographers of Genius at the Getty (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004), pl. 101
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