Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note the kerosene pump on the right and the gasoline pump on the left. Rough, unfinished timber posts have been used as supports for porch roof. Negro men are sitting on the porch. Brother of store owner stands in doorway, Gordonton, North Carolina
July 1939, printed later
Dorothea Lange
Artist, American, 1895 - 1965
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 24.5 × 34.3 cm (9 5/8 × 13 1/2 in.)
sheet: 25.6 × 35.4 cm (10 1/16 × 13 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2018.189.14
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Estate of Blossom and Ben Norman, Los Angeles; (sale, Santa Monica Auctions, CA, 21 November 2016); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
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Inscriptions
on verso, possibly by artist, upper center in blue ink: 38147 [circled] Crossroads store, Alabama. 1937; across bottom in graphite: [arrow] 6" [arrow]