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Grit & Grace: Photographs from the Nelson Brothers Collection

Dorothea Lange

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