Dorothea Lange
Woman of the High Plains, Texas Panhandle
Lot Closed
April 10, 04:28 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Dorothea Lange
1895 - 1965
Woman of the High Plains, Texas Panhandle
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to processed photographic paper, framed, George Abrams, AlphaBits Inc., letterhead and other fragments on the reverse
image: 12¾ by 10⅛ in. (32.4 by 25.7 cm.)
frame: 22½ by 19½ in. (57.2 by 49.5 cm.)
Executed in 1938, probably printed in the 1940s or early 1950s.
Sotheby’s New York, 16 October 1990, Sale 6073, Lot 243
Private collection
Christie’s New York, 10 October 1991, Sale 7330 Lot 265
Collection of George Abrams, artist and noted type designer
By descent through family to the present owner
Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 38
Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman (Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum of American Art, 1967), p. 29
Therese T. Heyman, Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange (The Oakland Museum, 1978), p. 80
Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (New York: Aperture, 1982), p. 80
Elizabeth Partridge, ed., Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life (Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1994), p. 83
Therese T. Heyman, Sandra S. Phillips, and John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1995), pl. 83
Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor, An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion (Paris, 1999), cover and p. 101
Mark Durden, Dorothea Lange 55 (London, 2001), p. 95
Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer (Boston, 2002), p. 91
Sarah Herman Mesiter, Dorothea Lange: Words and Pictures (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019), pp. 69, 163, and 168
