Margaret Bourke-White
Maiden Lane, Georgia

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Artist Margaret Bourke-White (American, 1904–1971)American, 1904–1971

CultureAmerican

Titles

Maiden Lane, Georgia

Datec. 1936

PlaceGeorgia, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 1/16 × 13 3/8 in. (25.6 × 33.9 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/16 × 13 3/8 in. (25.6 × 33.9 cm)
Mount: 15 × 19 13/16 in. (38.1 × 50.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.694

Current Location

The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building

Gallery 208

On view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

Description

This photo was included in the book You Have Seen Their Faces (1937, authored jointly by Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell), which illustrated the poverty-stricken lives of southern tenant farmers and sharecroppers during the Great Depression. In the book, the husband is quoted as saying, “A man learns not to expect much after he’s farmed cotton most of his life.”

Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"American Vision: Photographers from the East, Selections from the Manfred Heiting Collection purchased by the Brown Foundation for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from August 23-December 29, 2003.

"From the Printed Page: Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 23-June 5, 2006.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in pencil, verso of mount, upper center: "Book order - A3"
Stamped in red, verso of mount, center: "A / MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE / PHOTOGRAPH"
Inscribed in pencil, verso of mount, lower right: "Hr 304-11-7"

The photograph is not signed.

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