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This artwork, White Angel Breadline, San Francisco by Dorothea Lange, is currently for sale at RoseGallery.
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TITLE:
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White Angel Breadline, San Francisco
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WORK DATE:
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1933
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CATEGORY:
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Photographs
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MATERIALS:
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Gelatin Silver Enlargement Print
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MARKINGS:
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Photographer's stamp on verso: Dorothea Lange, 1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, CA.
Notations on verso: [DL-CAL-EB-1376]
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SIZE:
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h: 14 x w: 11 in / h: 35.6 x w: 27.9 cm
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PRICE*:
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DESCRIPTION:
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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
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PROVENANCE:
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From a private collection, CA (by gift of the artist).
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LITERATURE:
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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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