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Dorothea Lange

Migratory Cotton Worker, Eloy, Arizona

Auction Closed

May 1, 11:36 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Dorothea Lange

1895 - 1965

Migratory Cotton Worker, Eloy, Arizona


gelatin silver print, the photographer's '1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California' stamp on the reverse, framed, 1940, probably printed in the 1940s

image: 9⅛ by 11⅝ in. (23.2 by 29.5 cm.)

frame: 16¾ by 20¾ in. (40.6 by 52.7 cm.)

Collection of the photographer's family

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2005

John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 28

Therese Thau Heyman, Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange (The Oakland Museum, 1978), p. 47

Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (Aperture, 1982), cover and p. 122

20th Century Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art (New York and Tokyo: The Museum of Modern Art and The Seibu Museum of Art, 1982). p. 53

John Szarkowski, Photography Until Now (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1989), p. 217

Therese Thau Heyman, Sandra S. Phillips, and John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994), pl. 32

Elizabeth Partridge, ed., Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life (Washington, D. C., 1994), p. 82

Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Kansas City, 1995), p. 55

Dorothea Lange: The Human Face (Paris, 1998), front cover, frontispiece, and p. 49

Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer (Boston, 2002), pp. 135 and 189

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 43 and 227