Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Dorothea Lange
No Rain, Idle in Town During the Great Drought, Sallisaw, Oklahoma
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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Dorothea Lange
1895 - 1965
No Rain, Idle in Town During the Great Drought, Sallisaw, Oklahoma
gelatin silver print
9¾ by 11 in.
24.8 by 27.9 cm.
Executed in 1936, printed in 1962.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Natalie Alford at Natalie.Alford@sothebys.com.
Acquired from the photographer in 1962 by the present owner
Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime, New York, 1982, p. 82, illustrated
Paul Taylor, An American Exodus: a record of human erosion, Paris, 1999, p .63, illustrated
Mark Durden, Dorothea Lange 55, London, 2001, p. 51, illustrated
Linda Gordon, Dorothea Lange: Aperture Masters of Photography, New York, 2014, p. 55, illustrated
This print was produced in connection with The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition The Bitter Years: 1935-1941, October - November 1962.
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