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DOROTHEA LANGE (1895–1965)
Rebecca Chambers, Sausalito, California, 1954
gelatin silver print, mounted on card, printed 1965
stamped Museum of Modern Art Department of Photography Permanent Collection and numbered '2' and '21' in pencil (mount, verso)
image: 13 x 18 3/4 in. (33 x 47.5 cm.)
sheet: 13 7/8 x 19 1/8 in. (35.2 x 48.5 cm.)
mount: 14 1/8 x 19 1/4 in. (35.8 x 48.9 cm.)

Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Dorothea Lange, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966, p. 68 (as, Rebecca Dixon).
Dorothea Lange, Dorothea Lange looks at the American Country Woman, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 1978, p. 15.
Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer’s Life, Farrar Staus Giroux, New York, 1978, p. 266.
Robert Coles, Photographs of a Lifetime, Aperture, New York, 1982, p. 105.
Exhibition catalogue, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994, pl. 118.
Dorothea Lange, The Human Face, NBC Editions, Paris, 1998, p. 91.
Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer, Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Co., Boston, 2002, p. 197.
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Lot Essay

Rebecca Chambers was the sister Lange's first husband, Maynard Dixon.

This work was printed in conjunction with the exhibition Dorothea Lange presented by The Museum of Modern Art in 1966.

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