
Grit & Grace: Photographs from the Nelson Brothers Collection
Migrant Mother, Nipomo California
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Grit & Grace: Photographs from the Nelson Brothers Collection
Dorothea Lange
1895 - 1965
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, the photographer’s Resettlement Administration credit stamp with reproduction annotations and RA 9085-C in pencil on the reverse, framed
image: 8 ¾ by 7 ⅜ in. (22.2 by 18.7 cm.)
Executed in 1936, probably printed between 1936 and 1937.
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
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
Exh. Cat., Chicago, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Dorothea Lange: Eloquent Witness, 1989, p. 37, illustrated
Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs, 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, p. 39, illustrated and on the cover
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, p. 240, fig. 21, illustrated
Linda Gordon, "Dorothea Lange's Oregon Photography," Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 110, Winter 2009, no. 4, 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, p. 3, illustrated and on the cover
Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, 2019, p. 135, illustrated and as a frontispiece
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