Artist Monograph

Dorothea Lange, American

Dorothea Lange is represented by 478 works in MoMA's permanent collection, classified as american, with dated works spanning 1915–1964.

American, 1895–1965

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Medium & Technique Profile

Primary media across the MoMA holdings

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Photography	478	100%

Technique range

MoMA’s records for Dorothea Lange cover a single medium: Photography.

Collection Distribution: MoMA & The Met

Works held at MoMA

MoMA holds a substantial body of 478 works produced between 1915 and 1964 attributed to Dorothea Lange, representing verified accession records curated by the museum’s Department of Painting and Sculpture and sister departments.

Production timeline

Dated works in these two collections span 49 years, from 1915 to 1964.

Cultural Context & Contemporaries

National context

Dorothea Lange is catalogued under American nationality. See the full American artists hub.

Contemporaries among American artists

16315
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
works at MoMA
3358
Louise Bourgeois
works at MoMA
2199
Ellsworth Kelly
works at MoMA
1338
Lee Friedlander
works at MoMA
932
George Maciunas
works at MoMA

Lifespan & active period

Lifespan: 1895–1965 (70 years). Artistic production is attributed within this window.

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 150 shown of 478

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Dorothea Lange's Mother Photograph Acc. 300.1995	c. 1915	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	10 7/8 × 8 15/16" (27.6 × 22.8 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Dorothea Lange's Mother Photograph Acc. 301.1995	c. 1915	Gelatin silver print	7 1/2 × 6 3/16" (19.1 × 15.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Hopi Indian, New Mexico Photograph Acc. 808.1968	c. 1923	Gelatin silver print	10 1/2 × 11 9/16" (26.7 × 29.4 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Hopi Indian, New Mexico Photograph Acc. 304.1995	c. 1923	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	11 5/16 × 11 5/8" (28.8 × 29.5 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Torso, San Francisco Photograph Acc. 514.1995	1923	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	14 5/16 × 10 7/8" (36.3 × 27.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Torso, San Francisco Photograph Acc. 515.1995	1923	Gelatin silver print	12 9/16 × 10 1/8" (32 × 25.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Adele Raas, San Francisco Photograph Acc. 317.1995	c. 1928	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	10 3/4 × 8 5/16" (27.4 × 21.1 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Mexican-American, San Francisco Photograph Acc. 315.1995	1928	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	13 1/2 × 15 1/16" (34.3 × 38.3 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Mexican-American, San Francisco Photograph Acc. 316.1995	1928	Gelatin silver print	7 15/16 × 7 9/16" (20.2 × 19.3 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Clausen Child and Mother Photograph Acc. 217.2017	c. 1930	Gelatin silver print	6 1/8 × 8 1/4" (15.6 × 21 cm)	Photography	Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Henri Cartier-Bresson, by exchange
John, San Francisco Photograph Acc. 778.1968	1931	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	5 7/8 × 4 9/16" (15 × 11.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
John, San Francisco Photograph Acc. 476.1995	1931	Gelatin silver print	7 1/2 × 7" (19.1 × 17.8 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Maryann Savage, Utah Photograph Acc. 479.1995	1933	Gelatin silver print	10 3/4 × 9 3/4" (27.3 × 24.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Maryann Savage, Utah Photograph Acc. 478.1995	1933	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	15 13/16 × 15 1/4" (40.2 × 38.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Street Demonstration, San Francisco Photograph Acc. 481.1959	1933-34	Gelatin silver print	13 1/8 × 10" (33.3 × 25.5 cm)	Photography	Gift of the artist
Street Demonstration, San Francisco Photograph Acc. 829.1968	1933-34	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	17 3/8 × 12 15/16" (44.2 × 33 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Street Demonstration, San Francisco Photograph Acc. 326.1938	1933-34	Gelatin silver print	10 × 8 1/16" (25.4 × 20.5 cm)	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco Photograph Acc. 407.1995	1933	Gelatin silver print	12 5/16 × 9 13/16" (31.3 × 24.9 cm)	Photography	Purchase
White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco Photograph Acc. 108.1940	1933	Gelatin silver print	10 3/4 × 8 7/8" (27.3 × 22.6 cm)	Photography	Gift of Albert M. Bender
Andrew Furuseth, San Francisco Photograph Acc. 809.1968	1934	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	12 13/16 × 11 1/2" (32.6 × 29.2 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Back Photograph Acc. 799.1968	1934	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	13 5/8 × 7 13/16" (34.6 × 19.8 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Mrs. S. Lilienthal, San Francisco Photograph Acc. 470.1995	May 1934	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	5 7/8 × 4 3/16" (15 × 10.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Along the Highway near Bakersfield, California Photograph Acc. 642.1995	November 1935	Gelatin silver print	10 3/4 × 13 11/16" (27.3 × 34.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Back Photograph Acc. 505.1995	1935	Gelatin silver print	9 13/16 × 7 11/16" (25 × 19.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Back Photograph Acc. 798.1968	1935	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	12 9/16 × 8 7/8" (32 × 22.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Filipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas Valley, California Photograph Acc. 859.1968	June 1935	Gelatin silver print	10 7/16 × 13 1/8" (26.5 × 33.4 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Filipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas Valley, California Photograph Acc. 615.1995	June 1935	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	14 1/8 × 14 1/2" (35.9 × 36.8 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Filipinos cutting lettuce, Salinas Valley, California Photograph Acc. 616.1995	June 1935	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	14 7/16 × 14 1/2" (36.7 × 36.8 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Filipinos Cutting Lettuce, Salinas Valley, California Photograph Acc. 631.1995	June 1935	Gelatin silver print, printed 1953	10 3/8 × 10 1/8" (26.4 × 25.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Imperial Valley, California Photograph Acc. 779.1968	c. 1935-1939	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	7 3/8 × 5 3/4" (18.8 × 14.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Imperial Valley, California Photograph Acc. 783.1968	March 1935	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	7 3/8 × 5 3/4" (18.8 × 14.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Mexican Woman and Child, Imperial Valley, California Photograph Acc. 466.1995	March 1935	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	5 11/16 × 4 3/8" (14.4 × 11.1 cm)	Photography	Purchase
San Joaquin Valley, California Photograph Acc. 322.1995	1935	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	11 1/2 × 10 13/16" (29.3 × 27.5 cm)	Photography	Purchase
San Joaquin Valley, California Photograph Acc. 323.1995	1935	Gelatin silver print	10 1/8 × 9 1/4" (25.8 × 23.5 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Wandering Boy, Camp Carlton, California Photograph Acc. 409.1995	1935	Gelatin silver print	13 1/4 × 9 3/4" (33.7 × 24.8 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Wandering Boy, Camp Carlton, California Photograph Acc. 408.1995	1935	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	14 3/4 × 11 11/16" (37.4 × 29.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
"A Destitute Mother: The Type Aided by the WPA" Photograph Acc. 2034.2001	March 1936	Gelatin silver print with gouache (painted and airbrushed), ink and grease pencil	10 × 7 11/16" (25.5 × 19.6 cm)	Photography	The New York Times Collection
Arkansas Sharecroppers Photograph Acc. 400.1995	1936-37	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	12 3/4 × 15 7/16" (32.4 × 39.2 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Arkansas Sharecroppers Photograph Acc. 401.1995	1936-1937	Gelatin silver print	10 9/16 × 13 5/8" (26.9 × 34.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Damaged Child, Shacktown, Elm Grove, Oklahoma Photograph Acc. 807.1968	August 1936	Gelatin silver print	10 1/4 × 9 7/16" (26 × 24 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Damaged Child, Shacktown, Elm Grove, Oklahoma Photograph Acc. 424.1995	August 1936	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	15 7/8 × 14 9/16" (40.4 × 37 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Damaged Child, Shacktown, Elm Grove, Oklahoma Photograph Acc. 425.1995	August 1936	Gelatin silver print, printed 1955	9 1/2 × 7 5/8" (24.2 × 19.4 cm)	Photography	Courtesy of the artist through Family of Man submission
Daughter of Migrant Tennessee Coal Miner Living in American River Camp near Sacramento, California Photograph Acc. 313.1938	November 1936	Gelatin silver print	7 1/2 × 9 1/2" (19.1 × 24.1 cm)	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Ditched, Stalled and Stranded, San Joaquin Valley, California Photograph Acc. 421.1995	February 1936	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	11 7/8 × 10 5/16" (30.1 × 26.2 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Ditched, Stalled and Stranded, San Joaquin Valley, California Photograph Acc. 471.1959	February 1936	Gelatin silver print	11 1/16 × 10 5/16" (28.1 × 26.2 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Hoe Culture, Alabama Photograph Acc. 39.1941	June 1936	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 7 1/2" (24.1 × 19 cm)	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California Photograph Acc. 331.1995	March 1936	Gelatin silver print, printed 1949	11 1/8 × 8 9/16" (28.3 × 21.8 cm)	Photography	Gift of the artist
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California Photograph Acc. 475.1964	1936	Gelatin silver print, printed 1964		Photography	Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California Photograph Acc. 804.1968	March 1936	Gelatin silver print	12 13/16 × 10 1/8" (32.6 × 25.8 cm)	Photography	Purchase
No Rain, Idle in Town during the Great Drought, Sallisaw, Oklahoma Photograph Acc. 634.1995	August 1936	Gelatin silver print	10 3/4 × 10 15/16" (27.3 × 27.8 cm)	Photography	Purchase
No Rain, Idle in Town during the Great Drought, Sallisaw, Oklahoma Photograph Acc. 635.1995	August 1936	Gelatin silver print, printed 1949	10 7/8 × 12 13/16" (27.7 × 32.6 cm)	Photography	Gift of the artist
Plantation Overseer and his Field Hands, Mississippi Delta Photograph Acc. 386.1995	June 1936	Gelatin silver print	10 9/16 × 13 5/16" (26.8 × 33.8 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Plantation Overseer and his Field Hands, Mississippi Delta Photograph Acc. 387.1995	June 1936	Gelatin silver print	13 5/8 × 10 3/4" (34.6 × 27.3 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Plantation Overseer and His Field Hands, Mississippi Delta Photograph Acc. 42.1941	June 1936	Gelatin silver print	7 1/2 × 9 1/2" (19 × 24.1 cm)	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Plantation Overseer and his Field Hands, Mississippi Delta Photograph Acc. 826.1968	June 1936	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	15 1/16 × 17 15/16" (38.3 × 45.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Rural California Photograph Acc. 474.1995	February 1936	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	5 9/16 × 4 5/16" (14.2 × 10.9 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Sharecroppers, Eutaw, Alabama Photograph Acc. 385.1995	July 1936	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	8 3/16 × 15" (20.8 × 38.2 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Sharecroppers, Eutaw, Alabama Photograph Acc. 790.1968	July 1936	Gelatin silver print	5 9/16 × 10 3/4" (14.1 × 27.4 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Sheriff, McAlester, Oklahoma Photograph Acc. 405.1995	August 1936	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	11 5/16 × 10 11/16" (28.8 × 27.2 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Sheriff, McAlester, Oklahoma Photograph Acc. 406.1995	August 1936	Gelatin silver print	9 3/4 × 9 3/4" (24.8 × 24.8 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Untitled (Oklahoma) Photograph Acc. 607.1995	c. 1936-1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	10 3/4 × 10 1/4" (27.3 × 26.1 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Untitled (Thumbtacked sign) Photograph Acc. 620.1995	c. 1936	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	10 1/8 × 12 9/16" (25.7 × 31.9 cm)	Photography	Purchase
A Half-Hour Later, Hardeman County, Texas Photograph Acc. 817.1968	1937	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	12 1/8 × 15 3/16" (30.8 × 38.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
A Half-hour Later, Hardeman County, Texas Photograph Acc. 423.1995	1937	Gelatin silver print	10 × 13 5/16" (25.5 × 33.9 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Cabbage Pickers Photograph Acc. 258.1959	c. 1937	Gelatin silver print	30 × 29 1/2" (76.3 × 75 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Calipatria, California Photograph Acc. 336.1995	February 1937	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	11 1/4 × 13 5/16" (28.6 × 33.9 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Calipatria, California Photograph Acc. 337.1995	February 1937	Gelatin silver print	7 9/16 × 9 1/2" (19.3 × 24.1 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Cotton Hoers Photograph Acc. 31.1943	1937	Gelatin silver print	7 7/8 × 7 5/8" (20 × 19.4 cm)	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Drought Refugee, California Photograph Acc. 40.1941	March 1937	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 7 1/2" (24.1 × 19 cm)	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Drought Refugee, California Photograph Acc. 641.1995	March 1937	Gelatin silver print, printed 1949	13 9/16 × 10 9/16" (34.5 × 26.8 cm)	Photography	Gift of the artist
Ex-Slave With Long Memory, Alabama Photograph Acc. 384.1995	c. 1937	Gelatin silver print	13 5/16 × 10 3/8" (33.8 × 26.3 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Ex-Slave with Long Memory, Alabama Photograph Acc. 810.1968	c. 1937	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	15 3/16 × 11 15/16" (38.5 × 30.3 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Ex-Tenant Farmer on Relief Grant in the Imperial Valley, California Photograph Acc. 606.1995	March 1937	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	9 15/16 × 9 5/16" (25.3 × 23.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Ex-Tenant Farmer on Relief Grant in the Imperial Valley, California Photograph Acc. 38.1941	March 1937	Gelatin silver print	7 5/8 × 9 1/2" (19.4 × 24.1 cm)	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Ex-Tenant Farmer on Relief Grant in the Imperial Valley, California Photograph Acc. 107.1940	March 1937	Gelatin silver print	12 × 9 7/8" (30.5 × 25.1 cm)	Photography	Gift of Albert M. Bender
Five Tenant Farmers without Farms, Hardeman County, Texas Photograph Acc. 422.1995	1937	Gelatin silver print	10 1/8 × 12 15/16" (25.8 × 32.9 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Greene County, Georgia Photograph Acc. 782.1968	July 1937	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	4 5/16 × 5 3/8" (11 × 13.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Hoeing, near Yazoo City, Mississippi Photograph Acc. 388.1995	June 1937	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	16 13/16 × 21 1/2" (42.7 × 54.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Hoeing, near Yazoo City, Mississippi Photograph Acc. 389.1995	June 1937	Gelatin silver print	9 3/4 × 12 15/16" (24.7 × 32.9 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Jobless on the Edge of a Peafield, Imperial Valley, California Photograph Acc. 797.1968	February 1937	Gelatin silver print	9 15/16 × 9 5/8" (25.2 × 24.5 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Jobless on the Edge of a Peafield, Imperial Valley, California Photograph Acc. 338.1995	February 1937	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	16 15/16 × 15 3/4" (43 × 40.1 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Kern County, California Photograph Acc. 332.1995	1937	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	12 1/2 × 13 13/16" (31.7 × 35.1 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Kern County, California Photograph Acc. 333.1995	1937	Gelatin silver print	10 1/4 × 13 7/16" (26.1 × 34.2 cm)	Photography	Purchase
On the Road to Los Angeles, California Photograph Acc. 41.1941	March 1937	Gelatin silver print	8 1/16 × 7 3/4" (20.4 × 19.7 cm)	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
One Man, One Mule, Greene County, Georgia Photograph Acc. 390.1995	July 1937	Gelatin silver print	9 11/16 × 13 5/16" (24.6 × 33.9 cm)	Photography	Purchase
One Man, One Mule, Greene County, Georgia Photograph Acc. 846.1968	July 1937	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	16 15/16 × 21 5/8" (43.1 × 55 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Sharecropper's Family, Georgia Photograph Acc. 44.1941	July 1937	Gelatin silver print	7 1/2 × 9 1/2" (19 × 24.1 cm)	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Six Tenant Farmers without Farms, Hardeman County, Texas Photograph Acc. 836.1968	1937	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	12 15/16 × 16 5/8" (32.9 × 42.2 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Unemployed Farm Workers, Stockton, California Photograph Acc. 410.1995	1937	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	18 3/4 × 15 7/8" (47.7 × 40.4 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Unemployed Farm Workers, Stockton, California Photograph Acc. 411.1995	1937	Gelatin silver print	10 3/8 × 13 5/16" (26.3 × 33.9 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Unemployed Farm Workers, Stockton, California Photograph Acc. 412.1995	1937	Gelatin silver print	7 1/4 × 6 7/16" (18.5 × 16.3 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Unemployed Farm Workers, Stockton, California Photograph Acc. 628.1995	1937	Gelatin silver print	10 5/16 × 13 1/4" (26.2 × 33.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Young Mother, a Migrant, California Photograph Acc. 45.1941	March 1937	Gelatin silver print	7 5/8 × 8 5/8" (19.4 × 21.9 cm)	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Young Sharecropper, Macon County, Georgia Photograph Acc. 818.1968	July 1937	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	11 3/4 × 11 3/4" (29.8 × 29.9 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Young Sharecropper, Macon County, Georgia Photograph Acc. 530.1973	July 1937	Gelatin silver print	8 15/16 × 9 1/16" (22.8 × 23 cm)	Photography	Gift of the artist
Back Photograph Acc. 506.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print	9 7/16 × 7 7/8" (24 × 20 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Back Photograph Acc. 800.1968	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	12 9/16 × 8 7/8" (32 × 22.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
By the Chinaberry Tree, near Tifton, Georgia Photograph Acc. 399.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	10 5/8 × 13 1/2" (27 × 34.3 cm)	Photography	Purchase
By the Chinaberry Tree, near Tifton, Georgia Photograph Acc. 803.1968	1938	Gelatin silver print	9 1/16 × 10 7/8" (23.1 × 27.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Clouds, Utah Photograph Acc. 486.1995	c. 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	15 13/16 × 13 7/8" (40.2 × 35.2 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Cotton Picker, San Joaquin Valley, California Photograph Acc. 508.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1949	10 7/8 × 12 7/8" (27.7 × 32.7 cm)	Photography	Gift of the artist
Cotton Picker, San Joaquin Valley, California Photograph Acc. 845.1968	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	15 9/16 × 22 3/16" (39.6 × 56.4 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Farm Family Photograph Acc. 105.1940	1938	Gelatin silver print	7 × 8 7/8" (17.8 × 22.6 cm)	Photography	Gift of Albert M. Bender
Funeral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town, California Photograph Acc. 308.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print	11 1/16 × 9 9/16" (28.1 × 24.3 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Funeral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town, California Photograph Acc. 825.1968	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	15 5/8 × 14 7/16" (39.7 × 36.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Funeral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town, California Photograph Acc. 476.1959	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1958	9 7/16 × 8" (24 × 20.3 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Georgia Road Sign Photograph Acc. 402.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	9 3/4 × 10 3/16" (24.7 × 25.9 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Georgia Road Sign Photograph Acc. 403.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	7 11/16 × 9 11/16" (19.5 × 24.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Grayson, San Joaquin Valley, California Photograph Acc. 806.1968	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	10 3/8 × 16 15/16" (26.3 × 43 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Grayson, San Joaquin Valley, California Photograph Acc. 438.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	24 × 30 1/2" (61 × 77.5 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Grayson, San Joaquin Valley, California Photograph Acc. 515.1973	1938	Gelatin silver print	7 5/8 × 9 1/2" (19.4 × 24.2 cm)	Photography	Gift of the artist
Grayson, San Joaquin Valley, California Photograph Acc. 106.1940	1938	Gelatin silver print	8 3/4 × 10 7/8" (22.3 × 27.6 cm)	Photography	Gift of Albert M. Bender
Grayson, San Joaquin Valley, California Photograph Acc. 516.1973	1938	Gelatin silver print	7 1/2 × 9 1/2" (19.1 × 24.2 cm)	Photography	Gift of the artist
Greenville, Mississippi Photograph Acc. 393.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	12 7/16 × 11 11/16" (31.6 × 29.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Greenville, Mississippi Photograph Acc. 394.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print	10 7/8 × 10 9/16" (27.7 × 26.8 cm)	Photography	Purchase
J.R. Butler, President of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, Memphis, Tennessee Photograph Acc. 440.1995	June 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	13 1/8 × 10" (33.4 × 25.4 cm)	Photography	Purchase
J.R. Butler, President of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, Memphis, Tennessee Photograph Acc. 801.1968	June 1938	Gelatin silver print	12 13/16 × 10 1/4" (32.6 × 26.1 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Kern County, California Photograph Acc. 339.1995	November 1938	Gelatin silver print	10 3/4 × 13 3/4" (27.3 × 34.9 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Kern County, California Photograph Acc. 816.1968	November 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	14 5/16 × 11 1/8" (36.4 × 28.2 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Kern County, California Photograph Acc. 796.1968	November 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	12 7/16 × 12 1/2" (31.6 × 31.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Kern County, California Photograph Acc. 517.1973	November 1938	Gelatin silver print	9 11/16 × 7 1/2" (24.6 × 19 cm)	Photography	Gift of the artist
Kern County, California Photograph Acc. 518.1973	November 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	9 7/16 × 7 5/16" (24 × 18.5 cm)	Photography	Gift of the artist
Ma Burnham, Conroy, Arkansas Photograph Acc. 305.1995	June 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	16 3/4 × 14 5/8" (42.5 × 37.1 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Ma Burnham, Conroy, Arkansas Photograph Acc. 306.1995	June 1938	Gelatin silver print	9 5/16 × 7 1/2" (23.6 × 19.1 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Ma Burnham, Conroy, Arkansas Photograph Acc. 629.1995	June 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1949	13 9/16 × 10 1/2" (34.5 × 26.6 cm)	Photography	Gift of the artist
Mississippi Photograph Acc. 404.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	16 7/8 × 18 1/2" (42.8 × 47 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Mother and Child, San Joaquin Valley Photograph Acc. 20.2021	1938	Gelatin silver print	7 × 9 1/2" (17.8 × 24.1 cm)	Photography	Gift of Helen Kornblum in honor of Roxana Marcoci
Near Westley, California Photograph Acc. 334.1995	April 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	13 7/16 × 14 1/8" (34.1 × 35.9 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Near Westley, California Photograph Acc. 335.1995	April 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	9 1/2 × 10 1/2" (24.2 × 26.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Photograph Acc. 324.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	7 13/16 × 7 1/2" (19.8 × 19 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Photograph Acc. 325.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print	8 1/4 × 7 3/8" (20.9 × 18.7 cm)	Photography	Purchase
On the Plains a Hat is more than a Covering Photograph Acc. 509.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	15 9/16 × 14 3/8" (39.6 × 36.5 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Outside the Relief Grant Office Photograph Acc. 104.1940	November 1938	Gelatin silver print	9 3/8 × 5 5/8" (23.8 × 14.3 cm)	Photography	Gift of Albert M. Bender
Ozarks, Missouri Photograph Acc. 472.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	7 3/8 × 6 1/2" (18.7 × 16.5 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Ozarks, Missouri Photograph Acc. 473.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print	13 1/8 × 10 3/8" (33.3 × 26.3 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Political Signs, Waco, Texas Photograph Acc. 43.1941	June 1938	Gelatin silver print	9 5/8 × 7 1/8" (24.5 × 18.1 cm)	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Tennessee Photograph Acc. 395.1995	June 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	11 7/16 × 11 1/4" (29.1 × 28.5 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Tennessee Photograph Acc. 857.1968	June 1938	Gelatin silver print	10 13/16 × 10 9/16" (27.5 × 26.8 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Texas Photograph Acc. 471.1995	November 1938	Gelatin silver print	7 3/4 × 9 3/4" (19.7 × 24.8 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Texas Photograph Acc. 780.1968	November 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	6 1/2 × 6 15/16" (16.6 × 17.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Texas Panhandle Photograph Acc. 865.1968	June 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	12 × 15 9/16" (30.5 × 39.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
The Road West, New Mexico Photograph Acc. 524.1973	June 1938	Gelatin silver print	Overall: 15 3/4 × 10" (40 × 25.4 cm)	Photography	Gift of the artist
The Road West, New Mexico Photograph Acc. 326.1995	June 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	18 15/16 × 29 9/16" (48.2 × 75.1 cm)	Photography	Purchase
The Road West, New Mexico Photograph Acc. 328.1995	June 1938	Gelatin silver print	9 7/16 × 13 3/8" (24 × 34 cm)	Photography	Purchase
The Road West, New Mexico Photograph Acc. 495.1994	June 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	9 5/8 × 13 1/16" (24.5 × 33.2 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Tobacco Sharecropper, Georgia, South Georgia tobacco sharecropperin town during the tobacco auction. In order to eke out a living, members of the sharecropper families in recent years have begun to migrate to Florida, after cotton or tobacco harvest, for seasonal work in fruits and vegtables. They go from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and even Arkansas. This family participates in migration. Douglas., Photograph Acc. 208.1944	July 1938	Gelatin silver print	7 3/4 × 7 1/2" (19.7 × 19 cm)	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas Photograph Acc. 828.1968	June 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	14 13/16 × 20 3/4" (45.4 × 53.3 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas Photograph Acc. 474.1959	June 1938	Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1958	9 5/16 × 12 13/16" (23.6 × 32.6 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Unemployment Benefits Aid Begins Photograph Acc. 860.1968	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	7 1/2 × 9 1/2" (19.1 × 24.2 cm)	Photography	Purchase
Water Boy, Mississippi Delta Photograph Acc. 391.1995	1938	Gelatin silver print, printed 1965	11 1/4 × 11 1/2" (28.6 × 29.2 cm)	Photography	Purchase

Frequently Asked Questions

How many works by Dorothea Lange are in MoMA?

MoMA's catalogue lists 478 works attributed to Dorothea Lange.

What medium did Dorothea Lange primarily work in?

Based on MoMA's holdings, Dorothea Lange's most represented medium is Photography.

What nationality is Dorothea Lange?

Dorothea Lange is catalogued as American in MoMA's Artists index.

When were Dorothea Lange's works created?

Dated works in MoMA + Met for Dorothea Lange span 1915 to 1964.