Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Dorothea Lange
1896 - 1965
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
annotations in pencil, a Museum of Modern Art Photography Department Study Collection stamp and a Family of Man Exhibition stamp (on the reverse)
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, flush-mounted
9⅝ by 7⅝ in.
24.4 by 19.4 cm.
Executed in 1936, printed in 1955.
Acquired from the photographer in 1955 by the present owner
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Documenting Rural American Life, March 2022 - March 2023
Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life, New York, 1978, p. 213, illustrated
Therese Thau Heyman, Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange, Oakland, 1978, p. 61, illustrated
Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime, New York, 1982, p. 77, illustrated
Dorothea Lange: Eloquent Witness, Chicago: Edwynn Houk Gallery, 1989, p. 37, illustrated
Therese Thau Heyman, Sandra S. Phillips, and John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994, no. 43, illustrated
Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange, New York, 1996, p. 45, illustrated
Dorothea Lange: The Human Face, Paris, 1998, p. 99, illustrated
Mark Durden, Dorothea Lange 55, London, 2001, cover and p. 39, illustrated
Judith Keller, In Focus: Dorothea Lange, Los Angeles, 2002, no 13, p. 33, illustrated
Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer, Boston, 2002, p. 133, illustrated
Douglas Cazaux Sackman, Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden, Berkeley, 2005, fig. 21, p. 240, illustrated
Linda Gordon, Dorothea Lange's Oregon Photography, Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 110, no. 4, Winter 2009, p. 571, illustrated
Linda Gordon, Dorothea Lange: Aperture Masters of Photography, New York, 2014, p. 31, illustrated
Sarah Hermanson Meister, Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother, New York, 2018, cover and p. 3, illustrated
Sarah Hermanson Meister, Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019, frontispiece and p. 135, illustrated
The Museum of Modern Art has confirmed that while this print has a 'Family of Man' exhibition stamp, it was used as a process print for planning purposes rather than for display in the exhibition.
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