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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Photography in the Fine Arts, 1965.328", "current_location": null, "title": "Funeral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town, California", "creation_date": "1938, printed c. 1965", "creation_date_earliest": 1938, "creation_date_latest": 1938, "artists_tags": [ "female" ], "culture": [ "America" ], "technique": "gelatin silver print", "support_materials": [], "department": "Photography", "collection": "PH - American 1900-1950", "type": "Photograph", "measurements": "Image: 28 x 25.5 cm (11 x 10 1/16 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)", "dimensions": { "image": { "height": 0.28, "height_inch": 11, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 0.255, "width_inch": 10, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0625 }, "matted": { "height": 0.61, "height_inch": 24, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 0.508, "width_inch": 20, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "Written in blue ink on recto: \"Dorothea Lange [signed] 1938(?)\"; in black ink on label on verso: \" 'Funeral Cortege' / Original Photograph / by Dorothea Lange\"", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 300794, "title": "Year in Review: 1965", "description": "Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).", "opening_date": "1965-10-27T04:00:00" }, { "id": 301411, "title": "Photograph Exhibition", "description": "Photograph Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-September 19, 1971).", "opening_date": "1971-07-13T04:00:00" }, { "id": 301622, "title": "Source Material for Studio Projects", "description": "Source Material for Studio Projects. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 20-August 27, 1972).", "opening_date": "1972-06-20T04:00:00" }, { "id": 455214, "title": "Photographs in Ink", "description": "Photographs in Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023).", "opening_date": "2022-11-19T05:00:00" } ], "legacy": [ { "description": "New York World's Fair, 1965: \"Photography in the Fine Arts.\"", "opening_date": "1965-01-01T00:00:00" }, { "description": "CMA, October 27 - November 14, 1965: \"Year in Review 1965,\" CMA Bulletin, 52 (November 1965), p. 157, no. 176.", "opening_date": "1965-10-27T00:00:00" } ] }, "provenance": [], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Dorothea Lange put a face to the political, economic, and social circumstances of displaced migrant farm workers during the Great Depression. In the late 1930s, while employed by the Farm Security Administration, her photographs were widely published and aided the government agency\u2019s goal of \u201cintroducing America to Americans.\u201d Lange\u2019s image of an older woman in a funeral procession invokes not only the end of an individual life but the shaky vitality of the town as a whole. In An American Exodus, Lange collaborated with her husband, Paul Schuster Taylor, a progressive agricultural economist. Their book combined photographs with data and text to raise awareness of their subjects\u2019 plight.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80041440" ], "internet_archive": [] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 259", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n279" }, { "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.", "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 219", "url": "" } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.328", "images": {}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of Photography in the Fine Arts", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 141747, "creators": [ { "id": 550, "description": "Dorothea Lange (American, 1895\u20131965)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Dorothea Lange American, 1895-1965\r\n\r\nDorothea Lange was a well-known documentary photographer who created memorable images of depression-era America. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Lange gained her first photographic experience working for Arnold Genthe in New York City. She then studied with Clarence H. White at his School of Photography and in 1919 opened a portrait studio in San Francisco. The following year she married painter Maynard Dixon and continued to work as a studio photographer until the early 1930s, when she began photographing unemployed laborers and labor strikes.\r\n\tPaul Taylor, a University of California economics professor who later became Lange's second husband, was impressed by her documentary work and in 1934 hired her to photograph migrant agricultural workers for the California State Emergency Relief Administration. Lange's work for Taylor led to a job with Roy Stryker at the U.S. Resettlement Administration (later called the Farm Security Administration) in 1935, photographing unemployed and homeless migrant workers, sharecroppers, and tenant farmers. In 1942, the year after she received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Lange began photographing Japanese-American internment camps in the United States.\r\n\tLater Lange worked for the Office of War Information and as a freelance photographer for Life magazine and other publications. She also traveled with Taylor to Asia, Latin America, and the Near East. In 1966, the year after her death, a major retrospective of Lange's work was held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. M.M.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1895", "death_year": "1965", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1965-09-11T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1938, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "1938, printed c. 1965", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [ "Funeral Cortege" ], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:50:18.087000" } }