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

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Artist Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965)American, 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

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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