Photographs
Photographs
Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma Dust Bowl Refugees in San Fernando, California
Lot Closed
April 10, 04:30 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Dorothea Lange
1895 - 1965
Oklahoma Dust Bowl Refugees in San Fernando, California
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, Resettlement Administration, photographer's credit, and 'RA 2613-C' stamps
image: 7 by 9¾ in. (17.8 by 24.8 cm.)
Executed in 1935.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Anjli Patel at Anjli.Patel@sothebys.com
Collection of Pare Lorentz, poet and filmmaker who produced films for the Resettlement Administration documenting the plight of the poor
Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco and Los Angeles, 21 May 2008, Sale 16085, Lot 97
Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Paul S. Taylor and Dorothea Lange, Migration of drought refugees to California. April 17, 1935 (Washington, D.C.: Farm Security Administration, 1935), p. 12
In Focus: Dorothea Lange, Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002), p. 9
Sarah Herman Mesiter, Dorothea Lange: Words and Pictures (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019), p. 43
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