Artist: Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965)
Nationality: American
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Dorothea Lange first worked in Arnold Genthe’s portrait studio in New York while studying photography under Clarence White at Columbia University. In 1918, she began traveling around the world working as a photographer. She ended up in San Francisco where she established her own portrait studio and was hired to document California migratory workers by Paul Taylor. Lange worked for the Resettlement Administration in 1935 and shot pictures of Native Americans, Japanese internment camps, and factory workers. She was the first woman to win the Guggenheim fellowship and also worked for a decade producing photo essays for LIFE magazine among others.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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J. Paul Getty Museum -
Hopi Man
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Resettled, El Monte, California, Dorothea Lange (United States, 1895 - 1965) , 1936, Gelatin-silver print
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Dorothea Lange Title: White Angel Breadline, San Francisco Date: 1933 Medium: gelatin silver print
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Dorothea Lange, Jesse Alexander (United States, born 1929) , 1966, printed 1977, Gelatin-silver print
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Dorothea Lange Title: Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California Date: 1936 Medium: gelatin silver print Dimensions:
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Salinas Lettuce Pickers, Calif., Dorothea Lange (United States, 1895 - 1965) , 1938, printed 1938, Gelatin-silver print
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Road West, 1938 Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965)Depicted: United States of AmericaGelatin silver print; 17.3
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Destitute Peapicker - Mother Of Seven Children (Migrant Mother - Variant), Dorothea Lange (United States, 1895 - 1965) , 1936 (FEB), printed 1936 (FEB), Gelatin-silver print
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Cecilia Beauz - Dorothea and Francesca 1898 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago
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Dorothea Lange - Once a Missouri Farmer, Now a Migratory Laborer on the Pacific Coast, California 1936 gelatin silver print Cincinnati Art Museum American
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FREDERIC II, ROI DE PRUSSE (1712-1786) (1772) by THERBUSCH Anna Dorothea, LISZIEWSKA Anna Dorothea (née)
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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson - Portrait of Mlle. Lange as Danae 1799 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts French
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy Trioson Title: Portrait of Mlle. Lange as Danae Date: 1799
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W.I.M.P. #1, Dorothea Rockburne (Canada, Verdun, Quebec, born 1934) , 1999, Five color lithograph
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W.I.M.P. #1 (State I), Dorothea Rockburne (Canada, Verdun, Quebec, born 1934) , 1999, Two color lithograph
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W.I.M.P. #2, Dorothea Rockburne (Canada, Verdun, Quebec, born 1934) , 1999, Nine color lithograph/screenprint
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W.I.M.P. #1 (State II), Dorothea Rockburne (Canada, Verdun, Quebec, born 1934) , 1999, Two color lithograph
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Néron au cirque (1855) by JANET Ange Louis, JANET-LANGE (dit)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
A Woman, Possibly Sophia Dorothea (1687-1757), Later Queen of Prussia Style of Benjamin Arlaud (Continental,
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Singularity (State), Dorothea Rockburne (Canada, Verdun, Quebec, born 1934) , 1999, Ten color lithograph
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Singularity, Dorothea Rockburne (Canada, Verdun, Quebec, born 1934) , 1999, Twelve color lithograph/screenprint
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William Strang Dorothea - The Don Quixote Series etching 1902
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Sepp Frank Dr. Karl A. Lange, (One of 10 Book Plate Etchings) etching, aquatint 1920
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Still life, Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen (Germany, Holstein, Lensahn, 1886 - 1930) , 1920, Linoleum cut on laid paper
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Preaching to the Fish, Otto Lange (Germany, Dresden, 1879 - 1944) , 1919, Woodcut on wove paper
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Autumn, Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen (Germany, Holstein, Lensahn, 1886 - 1930) , circa 1919, Woodcut on wove paper
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Portrait de Jeanne d'Albret (titre factice) (19e siècle) by JANET Ange Louis, JANET-LANGE (dit) ; PRIEUR M D (graveur)
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Nocturnal scene, Otto Lange (Germany, Dresden, 1879 - 1944) , after 1919, Linoleum cut on white card
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Mother and child, Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen (Germany, Holstein, Lensahn, 1886 - 1930) , circa 1919, Woodcut on wove paper
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Untitled, Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen (Germany, Holstein, Lensahn, 1886 - 1930) , 1920, Woodcut and collage on purple laid paper
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Untitled, Werner Lange (1888 - 1955) , 1919, Linoleum cut on wove paper
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William Strang Dorothea, plate 14 in the book, A Seriesäillustrating Subjects from åDon Quixote* (London: Macmillan and Co., 1902) etching 1902
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Napoléon III chassant à tir à la faisanderie de Compiègne (1865) by JANET Ange Louis, JANET-LANGE (dit)
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Herman Armour Webster Der Lange Franz, Frankfort a Main Etching 19th - 20th century
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The Snyders Triptych, Jan (called Lange Jan) Boeckhorst (Germany, Munster, 1605 - 1668) , circa 1659, Oil on panel
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Abstraction, Werner Lange (1888 - 1955) , circa 1921, Woodcut on wove paper
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Untitled, Werner Lange (1888 - 1955) , circa 1919, Linoleum cut on wove paper
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Head, Werner Lange (1888 - 1955) , circa 1921, Woodcut on wove paper
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Walter Satterlee "Dorothea fed the chickens...", third image in the book The Decorative Sisters by Josephine Pollard (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., 1881) color lithograph 1881
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Walter Satterlee "Dorothea wed a farmer...", seventeenth image in the book The Decorative Sisters by Josephine Pollard (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., 1881) color lithograph 1881
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The Mocking of Christ, Otto Lange (Germany, Dresden, 1879 - 1944) , after 1919, Woodcut printed in red and black on thin laid paper
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Walter Satterlee "One day as Dorothea, with her sleeves rolled up...", fourth image in the book The Decorative Sisters by Josephine Pollard (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., 1881) color lithograph 1881
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Landscape, Otto Lange (Germany, Dresden, 1879 - 1944) , circa 1919, Woodcut on wove paper
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Preaching to the fish, Otto Lange (Germany, Dresden, 1879 - 1944) , 1919, Woodcut on wove paper
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Portrait, Otto Lange (Germany, Dresden, 1879 - 1944) , circa 1917, Woodcut on wove paper
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Portrait, Otto Lange (Germany, Dresden, 1879 - 1944) , circa 1917, Woodcut on wove paper
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Foxes, Otto Lange (Germany, Dresden, 1879 - 1944) , circa 1917, Woodcut on wove paper
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Die rote Erde 1, no. 8/10 (1920), Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1920, Printed material with fourteen woodcuts and four linoleum cuts on wove paper
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Die rote Erde 1, no. 8/10 (1920), Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1920, Printed material with fourteen woodcuts and four linoleum cuts on wove paper
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Die rote Erde 1, no. 8/10 (1920), Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1920, Printed material with fourteen woodcuts and four linoleum cuts on wove paper
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Die rote Erde 1, no. 8/10 (1920), Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1920, Printed material with fourteen woodcuts and four linoleum cuts on wove paper
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Die rote Erde 1, no. 8/10 (1920), Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1920, Printed material with fourteen woodcuts and four linoleum cuts on wove paper
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Die rote Erde 1, no. 8/10 (1920), Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1920, Printed material with fourteen woodcuts and four linoleum cuts on wove paper
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Die rote Erde 1, no. 8/10 (1920), Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1920, Printed material with fourteen woodcuts and four linoleum cuts on wove paper
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Die rote Erde 1, no. 8/10 (1920), Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1920, Printed material with fourteen woodcuts and four linoleum cuts on wove paper
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Die rote Erde 1, no. 8/10 (1920), Lyonel Feininger (United States, New York, New York City, 1871 - 1956) , 1920, Printed material with fourteen woodcuts and four linoleum cuts on wove paper
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Walter Satterlee "Dorothea was no longer interested in teh churning...", ninth image in the book The Decorative Sisters by Josephine Pollard (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., 1881) color lithograph 1881
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MARCEAU. / INAUGURE LE 21 SEPTEMBRE 1854 (titre inscrit) (1854 après) by BELLIER ; LANGE (imprimeur, libraire, éditeur)
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Woman in green, Otto Lange (Germany, Dresden, 1879 - 1944) , 1918, Woodcut printed in green, black and orange on heavy wove paper

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (36)
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Judy A Saslow Gallery: Steve Barber, Richard Lange and Dimitar Manev
Steve Barber, who lives, paints and teaches in Michigan, applies a mixture of oil paint and wax to a black board and then scratches away images and text. The result is a humorous cacophony of information that depicts his "fears, hopes, conflicts ...
J. Paul Getty Center: About Life: The Photographs of Dorothea Lange
This exhibition offers the opportunity to view the works of Lange, who practiced a unique style of documentary photography. The influence of her pictures can be seen in the works of countless artists, and in other media such as film and literature...
Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery: Recent Paintings: Ray Pierotti, Roy Carruthers and T.L. Lange
Ray Pierotti's work appears in numerous collections and installations around the world. His first showing in Atlanta at Mason Murer, www.masonmurer.com, (one of Atlanta’s newest fine art galleries) presents recent paintings based on the Sacred G...
Oakland Museum of Califoria: Helen Nestor: Personal and Political
The Nestor collection, containing more than 2,000 prints and 20,000 negatives, is the life's work of an important documentary photographer who specialized in recording the political and social changes of the 1960s and beyond in California. N...
Columbus Museum of Art: The Art of Humane Propaganda
This exhibition brings together 44 vintage prints, on loan from the Ohio State University, together with earlier examples by American social documentary photographer Lewis Hine. Hines work, on loan from ...
Pulchri Studio: The Handwriting of the Artist: Work by Marcus van Soest
Part of the exhibition will exist of works he created this summer in France as well as paintings he created before and after that period with subjects in which he especially interprets the crazyness surrounding him, frequently depicted in a h...
Oakland Museum of California: Photographer Rondal Partridge Celebrated in Two Bay Area Exhibitions
The two institutions feature different aspects of Partridge's work: the California Historical Society will showcase documentary images depicting life in California during much of the 20th cent...
Oakland Museum of California: Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850-2000
Much of what we think of as Great American Photography is in fact Californian, said Drew Heath Johnson, Curator of Photography at OMCA. Names such as Weston, Watkins, Ansel Adams or Dorothea Lange are among the first that occur to us when we consi...
Detriot Institute of Art: Where the Girls Are: Photographs by Women in the Permanent Collection
This exhibition examines the enduring presence of women throughout the history of photography with a survey from the museum’s photograph collection that ranges from the 19th century through the present day. ...
Phoenix Art Museum: Keeping Shadows: Photography from the Worcester Art Museum
From daguerreotypes to digital prints, it includes masterworks by such innovators and icons of the medium as Alfred Stieglitz, Matthew Brady, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Cecil Beaton, Walker...
Davis Museum and Cultural Center: Bridging the Border: Shared Themes in Mexican and U.S. Art 1900 – 1950
Four themes: The City, Rural Traditions, Responses to European Modernism, and Protest and Persuasion break the show into sections that highlight areas of exchange during the first fifty years of the 20th century. Each category compares works by ...
AccessArts Publications Ltd.: Call for Artists: New Photography - Seeing Through the Socio-Anthropological Lens
Contemporary documentary photography has moved away from the traditional black and white images associated with photographers like Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Henri Cartier Bresson. Contemporary photographers embrace a variety of subject matt...
Kunstverein Hannover: TAUCHFAHRTEN (DIVINGS) - Drawings as Reportage
In this regard, the historical development of the international link between drawing and reportage will play a decisive role in the exhibition. This also encompasses, aside from autobiographical and/or historical news coverage drawings that a...
California Historical Society: At Work: The Art Of California Labor
The first overview of labor themes in California art over the last century, AT WORK includes work by photographers Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Pirkle Jones, and Otto Hagel, painters Hung Liu and Diego Rivera, printmakers Rupert Garcia and ...
Gallery of Photography: FSA: The Bitter Years of the American Depression
In 1935, Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Resettlement Administration (R.A.) as part of his 'New Deal' strategy to cope with the Great Depression. The R.A. project was set up to bring financial aid to thousands of rural communities affect...
Columbia Museum of Art: Chronicles The South Through The Eyes Of 63 Photographers
Through the photographers’ eyes it is possible to understand many of the cultural characteristics of the South that contribute to the creation of blues music -- the sense that both joy and sorrow are considered high moments in life. The photograph...
International Center of Photography: Ken Light: Coal Hollow
Light shows how the erosion of the coal mining industry has devastated individual lives and families in the close-knit communities of rural West Virginia. Where generations of coal miners once made their livelihood off the plentiful supply of co...
Telfair Museum of Art: LADIES, LANDSCAPES, AND LOYAL RETAINERS: JAPANESE ART FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
The fifty-six prints, dating primarily from the 18th ...
ProArts Gallery: Pro Arts New Visions 2008: Juried by Lucinda Barnes and Karen Tsujimoto
Karen Tsujimoto is an accomplished curator and author. Her interest in modern and contemporary West Coast artists is demonstrated in her curation of The Art of Peter Voulkos, Dorothea Lange: Archive of an Artist, Transformation: The Art of Joan Br...
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography after the Revolution
Certain photographs transcend the circumstances of their making. They become emblematic of an era, of a generation, or of a geographic place. Dorothea Lange’s 1936 photograph Migrant Mother has attained mythic status and be...
Gasworks Gallery: Shelf Life: Works by 12 International Artists Curated by smith + fowle
Artists included are: Bitterkomix (SA), Maria Hedlund (SW), Paul Khera (UK), Robert Linder (USA), Euan Macdonald (C), Kerry James Marshall (USA), Robin Rhode (SA), Freddie Robins (UK), Dario Robleto (USA), Will Rogan ...
Southeast Museum of Photography: Coal Hollow: Work by Ken Light, Oral Histories by Melanie Light
"Photographer Ken Light and writer Melanie Light rivet readers' attention on the landscape and lives of rural southern West Virginia in the first years of the 21st century - Coal Hollow belongs in the pantheon of great documentary projects of phot...
Buddy Holly Center Fine Art Gallery: Call for Artists: Illuminance
Juror: Keith Carter is an internationally recognized photographer and educator. Born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1948, he holds the endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University Beaumont, Texas. He is the recipient of two National Endowment for...
Memphis Brooks Museum: Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era
Linda McCartney's Sixties is the first museum exhibition of her work in the United States since her death in April 1998. It is also the first time that a compelling selection of her photographs of twentieth century rock and roll icons is going...
Seattle Art Museum: Only Skin Deep: Photography’s Role in Shaping America’s Identity
The curators Coco Fusco, Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Division at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and Brian Wallis, ICP’s Director of Exhibitions and Chief Curator, explore America’s stereotypical notions of race through more t...
Oakland Museum of California: Every Worker is an Organizer: Farm Labor and the Resurgence of the United Farm Workers
Bacon's black and white photographs provide an intimate look at field labor, union organizing activity and labor leaders during the United Farm Workers 1996 drive to organize the entire central California Coast strawberry industry, employing 25,0...
Photographers' Gallery: Call for Artists: Nominations for The Citigroup Photography Prize
Now in its eighth year, the Prize has become one of the most prestigious international arts awards. Past winner's of this £20,000 Prize include Richard Billingham, Andreas Gursky, Boris Mikhailov and Rineke Dijkstra. In 2003, Juergen Teller, one o...
BAK, basis voor actuele kunst: The Return of Religion and Other Myths
The exhibition "The Art of Iconoclasm", curated by art historian and writer Sven Lütticken, consists of two parts: "From Idol to Artwork" at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and "Attacking the Spectacle" at CM Studio, Centraal Museum. "The Art of Ico...
Center for Creative Photography: The Ansel Adams Centennial: Classic Images and A Portrait of Ansel Adams
The Ansel Adams Centennial is drawn from the Ansel Adams Archive at CCP, the largest repository of his work in the world. The archive includes voluminous correspondence, book layouts and manuscripts, ledgers, periodicals and monographs, camera...
Corcoran Gallery of Art: Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell
Dedicated to building bridges between cultural understanding and art, Julia "Judy" Norrell has assembled an outstanding collection that addresses the notion of a collective past and the role of memory and activism in finding common ground among di...
J. Paul Getty Center: Photographers of Genius at the Getty
From Hippolyte Bayard to Diane Arbus, the influential pioneers presented here span more than a century of photography, from the earliest years of the new art form in the late 1830s to the late 1960s. Each photographer featured in the exhibition ad...
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona: Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia
Thus the creation of Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, an exhibition that brings together nearly 2,000 documents (of which the almost 1,000 vintage photographs and prints are of particular interes...
Centro Studi ed Archivio della Comunicazione: Alberto Sughi Retrospective Collection
Alberto Sughi was born in Cesena in 1928. A self-taught painter, by the end of his formative years he had become one of the greatest Italian artists of his generation. He started painting in the early 1950s, choosing realism in the debate between ...
Auckland City Art Gallery: Patient Planet So Many Worlds
Journalistic in intent, it includes many of the big names of photojournalism such as Andre Kertesz, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Werner Bischof, Edward Steichen, Robert Frank, Dorothea Lange, Bill Brandt and Herbert List along with lesser known ph...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

Eiteljorg Museum of American and Western Art: Ansel Adams: A Life s Work
In the five years leading up to his death in 1984, Adams selected 75 photographs he felt best represented the range and quality of his work. Now, this Museum Set is coming to the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapo...

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