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DOROTHEA LANGE (American, 1895-1965) HOME, 1163 EUCLID AVENUE, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA signed

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DOROTHEA LANGE (American, 1895-1965) HOME, 1163 EUCLID AVENUE, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA signed
DOROTHEA LANGE (American, 1895-1965) HOME, 1163 EUCLID AVENUE, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA signed "Dorothea Lange" in blue ink on lower right of image recto "For John - This is one of the Series on Home [Dictionary definition - Home - the abiding place of the affections.] Dorothea Lange, 1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, Calif. -" inscribed in black ink by Lange on verso vintage gelatin silver print 6 11/16 x 9 7/16 in. (17 x 24 cm) circa 1959 PROVENANCE From the artist to John G. Morris (circa 1959), NEW YORK Dorothea Lange was best known for her documentary work for the Farm Security Administration in the thirties and her book AN AMERICAN EXODUS (1939), done in collaboration with her husband, Paul Schuster Taylor. After World War II, she began shooting photo essays on various themes or "groups" as she called them. This print is from the group on "Home." At the historic 1951 Aspen conference on photography, Lange met John G. Morris, then picture editor of LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. He wanted her to photograph for the magazine, but her health did not permit it. They nevertheless became good friends. Morris visited her in the big house in Berkeley, depicted in the present lot, which she shared with her husband, an agricultural economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Lange visited Morris at his home in Armonk, New York, and comforted him through the illness of his first wife. Thus, HOME was an appropriate gift.
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