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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Dorothea Lange

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.