DOROTHEA LANGE | WOMAN OF THE HIGH PLAINS, TEXAS PANHANDLE

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2004, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, as agent

Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor, An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion (Jean-Michel Place reprint of the 1939 original, 1999), cover and p. 101

George P. Elliott, Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 38

Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (New York, 1982), p. 80

Elizabeth Partridge, ed., Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life (Washington, D. C., 1994), p. 83

Dorothea Lange: American Photographs (The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994), pl. 83

Sarah Hermanson Meister, Dorothea Lange: Words and Pictures (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019), p. 69

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.