Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
Dorothea Lange, American, 1895 - 1965
negative March 1936, print 1965
Gelatin silver print
Image: 13 3/8 × 10 7/16 in. (34 × 26.5 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in. (35.4 × 27.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Helen Cleveland, Class of 1980
PH.995.12
Geography
Place Imaged: Nipomo, United States, North America
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Course History
ARTH 86, Senior Seminar in Art Historical Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Winter 2013
HIST 6, NAS 30, History of the American West, Ben Madley, Winter 2012
SART 29, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2012
SART 30, SART 75, Photography II, III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2013
SART 29, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Summer 2013
SART 29, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Winter 2014
WRIT 5, Human Rights, Global to Local, Peggy Baum, Winter 2014
SART 29, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Summer 2014
ARTH 85, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Fall 2014
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
COLT 10.21, Coming to America, Gerd Gemunden, Spring 2019
SART 29, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Summer 2019
SART 29/SART 75, Photography 1/Photography 3, Virginia Beahan, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 11, Spinning a Story: Manipulations of Motherhood by Women Artists, Jourdan Abel, Class of 2003, Education Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 22-March 30, 2003.
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.
Exile from Eden, Graham Gund Gallery of Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, March 26-July 22, 2012.
Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Women Photographers at the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 12-September 19, 2004.
Open House: A Portrait of Collecting, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, January 19-February 28, 2015.
Signs of Modern Life: Photographs from the Collections of Jane and Raphael Bernstein and Dartmouth College, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 13-October 25, 1998.
The Photograph as Document, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, English 7, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 2-December 15, 1996.
Publication History
Jourdan Abel, A Space for Dialogue 11, Spinning a Story: Manipulations of Motherhood by Women Artists, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2003, ill. cover.
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