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Child and her mother, FSA Rehabilitations clients, near Wapato, Yakima Valley, Washington
Child and her mother, FSA Rehabilitations clients, near Wapato, Yakima Valley, Washington

Child and her mother, FSA Rehabilitations clients, near Wapato, Yakima Valley, Washington

Artist Dorothea Lange (American, 1895 - 1965)
DateAugust 1939
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 7/16 × 9 1/2 inches (18.89 × 24.13 cm)
Sheet: 7 15/16 × 9 15/16 inches (20.16 × 25.24 cm)
Mount: 8 × 11 inches (20.32 × 27.94 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4208
SignedArtist's stamp on mount verso, lower right, in black ink: "PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA"
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn mount recto, lower right, in black pen: "4" [circled]; On mount verso, center, in pencil: "LC_20397" [circled].
On View
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Collections
DescriptionImage of a young girl at a wire fence; her mother watching in the background.Exhibition History

Rotation 3. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 20 -August 18, 2008, no cat.

Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 26, 2009 –  February 21, 2010, no cat.

Rotation 14. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, January 12 – June 9, 2013, no cat.

Dignity vs. Despair: Dorothea Lange and the Depression Era Photographers, 1933-1941. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 23 – November 26, 2017, no cat.

Gallery Label
Lange began as a professional portrait photographer in the early 1920s. The social calamities of the 1930s prodded her to leave the studio to document the nation's dispossessed. In her work for the Farm Security Administration from 1935 to 1939, Lange travelled across the country, recording the human toll of the Depression and Dust Bowl in images of deep emotional resonance and psychological complexity. Lange had the uncanny ability to see people as both individuals and as representative types: to recognize the iconic in the ordinary.  
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