Object number1997.14

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

Date1936

Artist Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print, printed c. 1950-1960

DimensionsImage: 9 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. (23.5 x 18.7 cm)
Sheet: 10 3/8 x 8 7/8 in. (26.4 x 22.5 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

Terms

MarkingsOn verso, stamped lower center edge in ink: DOROTHEA LANGE

ProvenancePurchased from Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA

Vassar Exhibitions

Camera Women: An Exhibition in Honor of Linda Nochlin

Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Exhibition HistoryCamera Women, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 25 - March 24, 2002;

Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 20 - December 15, 2019
DescriptionBlack and white image of a mother pictured from the chest up with her the fingertips of her right hand touching her lower cheek holding a child on her left side while another child leans into her right side and a baby lies in her lap. She squints slightly as she looks off into the distance, which furrows the lines in her face. Her and the children's clothes are tattered with wear in places.

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