Dorothea Lange
Filipinos cutting lettuce. Salinas Valley, California

Filipinos cutting lettuce. Salinas Valley, California

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Filipinos cutting lettuce. Salinas Valley, California
ArtistAmerican, 1895–1965
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Filipinos cutting lettuce. Salinas Valley, California
DateJune 1935, printed c. 1965
Place depictedCalifornia, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 14 1/4 × 14 1/2 in. (36.2 × 36.8 cm)
 Sheet: 14 9/16 × 14 5/8 in. (37 × 37.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Lee Godfrey at "One Great Night in November, 2006"
Object number2006.641
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Morehouse Gallery, Brookline, Massachusetts]; purchased by MFAH, 2006.
Exhibition HistoryMuseum of Modern Art, New York, 1965.

"The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890–1950," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 29, 2006–January 28, 2007; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 4–June 3, 2007.

"Norman Rockwell: American Freedom," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 15, 2019–March 22, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso center in pencil "38263", "164"
verso upper right "XII66"
verso lower left "W66IL.4"

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