DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965) Rebecca Dixon Chambers, Sausalito, California. 1954; printed 1965. Silver print, the image measuring 13x18⅝ inches (33x47.3 cm.), the sheet 13¾x19 inches (35x48.3 cm.), the mount 14x19¼ inches (35.6x49 cm.), with the "Permanent Collection Photography Department Museum of Modern Art, N.Y." stamp and numeric notations in pencil on mount verso.
This work was printed in conjunction with the exhibition Dorothea Lange presented by The Museum of Modern Art in 1966.
Provenance The Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Christie's New York, sale 18987 "From Pictorialism into Modernism: 80 Years of Photography," lot 69, April 30-May 15, 2020; to the Present Owner
"The old woman "Rebecca Dixon" (page 68), for example, need not be identified by nationality, year, or station in life: she is THERE in the world, unmistakably herself. Of the many images of women which Dorothea Lange caught on film, this one was to survive the artist's judging eye, because that old woman is THERE on paper too. The image has a life congruous to the woman's own living strength. A chance of light became her: the artist saw this and translated chemically what she saw into an image: we may see it too." - Excerpt from George P. Elliott, Dorothea Lange (The Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1966), p. 11
Prints of this image are in the Collections of MoMA, the National Gallery of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography. It is reproduced in numerous publications.
