Ex-slave with a long memory, Alabama
Artist
Dorothea Lange
(American, 1895 - 1965)
Date1938
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 1/8 × 7 1/2 inches (23.18 × 19.05 cm)
Mount: 9 1/8 × 7 1/2 inches (23.18 × 19.05 cm)
Mount: 9 1/8 × 7 1/2 inches (23.18 × 19.05 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4299
Signednone
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn mount verso, center, in pencil: "8x10 / 38165 [circled]"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of elderly black woman (ex-slave) with a cane/stick.Exhibition HistoryDignity 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.
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Dorothea Lange
March 1937
2005.27.4318
Dorothea Lange
July 1936
2005.27.4316
