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Dorothea Lange, White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
TITLE:  White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
ARTIST:  Dorothea Lange
WORK DATE:  1933
CATEGORY:  Photographs
MATERIALS:  Gelatin Silver Enlargement Print
MARKINGS:  Photographer's stamp on verso: Dorothea Lange, 1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, CA. Notations on verso: [DL-CAL-EB-1376]
SIZE:  h: 14 x w: 11 in / h: 35.6 x w: 27.9 cm
PRICE*:  Contact Gallery for Price
GALLERY:  RoseGallery  (310) 264-8440  Send Email
DESCRIPTION:  In 1933 Lange took one of her most celebrated photographs,"White Angel Breadline". Titled after a San Francisco widow, Lois Jordan, who became known as the "white Angel" when she established a soup kitchen to feed the needy and hungry.
Printed under the direct supervision of the artist from the original negative on warm-toned matte surface paper, circa 1950s
PROVENANCE:  From a private collection, CA (by gift of the artist).
ONLINE CATALOGUE(S):  RoseGallery Inventory Catalogue
LITERATURE:  Illustrated in: Photographs of Dorothea Lange, plate #21; Photographs of a Lifetime, (San Francisco Musuem of Modern Art, 1994), plate #45; American Photographs, plate #1; Dorothea Lange, New York: Musuem of Modern Art Catalog, 1966 p. 20; A Photographer's Life, plate #117
 
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