Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
Auction Closed
May 1, 11:36 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Dorothea Lange
1895 - 1965
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
oversized gelatin silver print, the photographer's '1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California' stamp on the reverse, framed, 1936, probably printed in the 1940s
image: 23 by 18 in. (58.4 by 45.7 cm.)
frame: 35 by 29¼ in. (88.9 by 74.3 cm.)
Private collection, California
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2005
Photographers Looking at Photographs: 75 Pictures from the Pilara Foundation (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 33 (this print)
Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), pp. 237–9 (this print)
Archibald MacLeish, ed., Land of the Free (London and New York, 1938), pl. 8
"The Assignment I'll Never Forget: Migrant Mother," Popular Photographs, February 1960
John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 25
Therese Thau Heyman, Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange (The Oakland Museum, 1978), p. 61
Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (Aperture, 1982), p. 77
Dorothea Lange: Eloquent Witness (Chicago: Edwynn Houk Gallery, 1989), p. 37
Sarah Greenough, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography (Washington, D. C., and Chicago: National Gallery of Art, Washington and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989), cat. no. 284
Therese Thau Heyman, Sandra S. Phillips, and John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994), pl. 1
Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Kansas City, 1995), p. 45
Peter Galassi, American Photography 1890-1965 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995), p. 148
Dorothea Lange: The Human Face (Aosta, 1998), p. 99
Barbara Haskell, The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-1950 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999), pl. 481
Mark Durden, Dorothea Lange 55 (New York, 2001), cover and unpaginated
Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer (Boston, 2002), p. 133
Weston Naef, Photographers of Genius at the Getty (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004), pl. 101
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022