id: 141747
accession number: 1965.328
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Funeral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town, California, 1938, printed c. 1965. Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965). Gelatin silver print; image: 28 x 25.5 cm (11 x 10 1/16 in.); matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Photography in the Fine Arts 1965.328
title: Funeral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town, California
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creation date: 1938, printed c. 1965
creation date earliest: 1938
creation date latest: 1938
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creditline: Gift of Photography in the Fine Arts
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1900-1950
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965) - artist
Dorothea Lange American, 1895-1965
Dorothea 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.
Paul 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.
Later 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.
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measurements: Image: 28 x 25.5 cm (11 x 10 1/16 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
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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"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1965
opening date: 1965-10-27T04:00:00
Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).
title: Photograph Exhibition
opening date: 1971-07-13T04:00:00
Photograph Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 13-September 19, 1971).
title: Source Material for Studio Projects
opening date: 1972-06-20T04:00:00
Source Material for Studio Projects. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 20-August 27, 1972).
title: Photographs in Ink
opening date: 2022-11-20T05:00:00
Photographs in Ink. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20, 2022-April 2, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'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'}
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
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
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 219
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