Dorothea Lange
The Catholic, Lutheran and Baptist Churches, Great Plains, Dixon, South Dakota

The Catholic, Lutheran and Baptist Churches, Great Plains, Dixon, South Dakota

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The Catholic, Lutheran and Baptist Churches, Great Plains, Dixon, South Dakota
ArtistAmerican, 1895–1965
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Catholic, Lutheran and Baptist Churches, Great Plains, Dixon, South Dakota
DateJuly 28, 1941
PlaceDixon Township, South Dakota, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 10 1/4 × 10 3/4 in. (26 × 27.3 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/4 × 10 3/4 in. (26 × 27.3 cm)
Mount: 13 9/16 × 16 1/8 in. (34.4 × 41 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mrs. Efrem Kurtz
Object number83.65
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Sotheby & Co., London]; purchased by MFAH, 1983.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Jan. 29 to Apr. 8, 1987 , Whitney Musseum, Fairfield Branch, 8 September - 11 November 1987 (LN:87.8)

Exhibited "Evocative Presence: Twentieth Century Photographs in the Museum Collection", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston February 27 - May 1, 1988

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso of mount center in pencil reading vertically "73+[circled]", "79"
upper right in pencil reading vertically "470 4 / 12-1 / 120 squole / thern"
bottom right below image in pencil "Dorothea Lange"
recto if mount has faint cropping marks in pencil

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