White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
Dorothea Lange, American, 1895 - 1965
negative 1932, print 1940s
Gelatin silver enlargement print
Image: 13 7/16 × 10 1/2 in. (34.1 × 26.7 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through gifts from the Class of 1955
© Oakland Museum of California, the City of Oakland, gift of Paul S. Taylor
2005.14
Geography
Place Made: San Francisco, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Stamped, on reverse, in black ink, repeated three times: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA
Course History
ARTH 86, Senior Seminar in Art Historical Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Winter 2013
ARTH 17, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2013
ARTH 16.2, Women in Art, Kristin O'Rourke, Fall 2014
SART 17.9, The Photographer as Activist: Making Art Inspired by the Hood Museum's Collection, Virginia Beahan, Winter 2015
ENGS 7.02, Climate Change, Mary Albert, Winter 2019
SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Spring 2019
COLT 10.21, Coming to America, Gerd Gemunden, Spring 2019
Exhibition History
American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.
America's Great Depression; Through the Eyes of Three Women Photographers, Israel Sack Gallery [American Works on Paper wall], Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May-August 2010.
Works on Paper: Studies in Contrast, Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, January 14-April 9, 2023.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 175, no. 145.
John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 153, ill. plate no. 84.
Provenance
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2005.
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