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A black-and-white photograph portrays a young white girl leaning against a wire fence with an older white woman standing behind her.

A black-and-white photograph shows the upper half of a young white girl with chin-length hair in the center of the foreground, wearing a short-sleeve floral dress with rounded open collar. She gazes down glumly with head tilted to the right, standing on leveled dirt while leaning against and grasping a sparsely barbed wire fence. Behind her to the left, an older white woman stands in the background, wearing a short-sleeve polka dot dress with a diamond pattern apron, looking towards the young girl and with her right hand on hip and left hand shading her eyes from the sun.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.716
People
Dorothea Lange, American (Hoboken, New Jersey 1895 - 1965 San Francisco, California)
Title
Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One of Chris Adolph's younger children. Farm Security Administration Rehabilitation clients
Other Titles
Former Title: A child with her mother, FSA Clients, Yakima Valley, near Wapato, Washington, August 1939.
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
August 1939, printed later
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Washington
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/159303

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 19.1 x 23.9 cm (7 1/2 x 9 7/16 in.)
sheet: 20.2 x 24.9 cm (7 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
mount: 20.2 x 24.9 cm (7 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Sedgewick Memorial Collection
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.716
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/05/2016 - 03/29/2017

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