Migrant Mother

American Art Painting and photography in the 19th & 20th century

Stage DNL 22 février 2010

Walker Evans, General Store, Moundville, Alabama, 1936 (Library of Congress)

Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) The Artist in His Museum, 1822

William Harnett, The Faithful Colt, 1890

Trompe l’œil, again • •

The Staircase Group In context

Anonymous, Maryland Family, ca 1820

Edward Hicks (1780-1849), The Cornell Farm, 1848

Anonymous, He That Tilleth His Land Shall Be Satisfied, ca1850

The functions and usage of photographs Functions and usage of photographs (le navigateur va s’ouvrir)

Ralph Earl (1751-1801), Oliver and Abigail Wolcott Ellsworth, 1792

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), The Biglen Brothers turning the stake, 1873

Claude Monet, Impression au soleil levant, 1872 (musée Marmottan)

Chronophotographs (1890), Etienne-Jules Marey / Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)

Frederick Remington (1861-1909), Turn Him Loose, Bill, 1892

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) Nu descendant un escalier, 1912

(Impression produced by a passing firetruck)

Charles Demuth (1883-1941) The Figure 5 in Gold, 1928

Church building, Massillon, Ohio, 1888 (balloon frame)

Captain Kahn’s Great Manta Ray, Rutherford, NJ, 1933 (postcard)

The point of view / the frame

Dorothea Lange, Pueblo Kiva, nd

The point of view / the frame

Beer cans

Dorothea Lange, Pueblo Kiva, nd

The point of view / the frame

Dorothea Lange, Pueblo Kiva, nd

Original caption by D. Lange Dorothea Lange, Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age 32, 1936

Common title given for publication

Migrant Mother

Dorothea Lange, Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. 32, 1936 Dorothea Lange, Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age Age 32, 1936

Original print in the Library of Congress

Dorothea Lange’s thumb Later blotted out on the final print

Original print in the Library of Congress

Other shots made by Dorothea Lange, source Library of Congress

Migrant mother & her children 43 years later (same arrangement as on 1936 picture

Florence Thompson and her daughters Norma Rydlewski (in front), Katherine McIntosh, and Ruby Sprague, at Norma’s House, Modesto, CA, June 1979

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