Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
DOROTHEA LANGE | YOUNG MIGRATORY COTTON PICKER, CASA GRANDE, ARIZONA
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October 1, 06:33 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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DOROTHEA LANGE
1895-1965
YOUNG MIGRATORY COTTON PICKER, CASA GRANDE, ARIZONA
oversized gelatin silver print, with cropping notations on the image and '17 [circled]' in pencil in the margin, mounted, framed, an Edwynn Houk Gallery label on the reverse, 1940, printed from the original negative circa 1965 under the direct supervision of the photographer for The Museum of Modern Art
image: 15¾ by 15⅜ in. (40 by 39.1 cm.)
framed: 25 by 21 in. (63.5 by 53.3 cm.)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2003, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, as agent
George P. Elliott, Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 30
The Bitter Years: Edward Steichen and The Farm Security Administration Photographs (New York, 2012), p. 277
The first major Dorothea Lange retrospective was presented at The Museum of Modern Art in 1966. Before her death in October 1965, Lange had worked closely with John Szarkowski, Director of the Department of Photography, to prepare the installation. The photographs were printed to Lange's careful specifications and according to the layout that she and Szarkowski together had designed. The pencil crop marks on the present photograph represent Lange's own cropping decisions. Two sets of photographs were printed in preparation for a never-realized travelling component of the exhibition; the Museum retained one set and the second was deaccessioned.