Mother and Child
Artist
Dorothea Lange
(American, 1895 - 1965)
Date1934
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 1/8 × 7 inches (23.18 × 17.78 cm)
Mount: 9 3/4 × 7 5/16 inches (24.77 × 18.57 cm)
Mount: 9 3/4 × 7 5/16 inches (24.77 × 18.57 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4209
SignedSigned and dated on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "Dorothea Lange 1934"
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn mount verso, top, in pencil: "33011"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionVintage print of young black woman holding a sleeping child in her lap.Exhibition HistoryAmerican Art Deco: Designing for the People, 1918-1939, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, July 9 2022–January 8 2023, no cat.
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2005.27.4208
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