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All Future Exhibitions

Dorothea Lange:
Seeing People

April 12, 2025 - February 15, 2026
Newton and Louise Tarble Gallery | Floor 2

During her long, prolific, and groundbreaking career, the American photographer Dorothea Lange made some of the most iconic portraits of the 20th century. Dorothea Lange: Seeing People reframes Lange’s work through the lens of portraiture, highlighting her unique ability to discover and reveal the character and resilience of those she photographed.

Featuring 100 photographs, the exhibition addresses her innovative approaches to picturing people, emphasizing her work on social issues including economic disparity, migration, poverty, and racism.

This exhibition debuted at the National Gallery of Art in 2023 and is curated by Philip Brookman, consulting curator in the department of photographs, National Gallery of Art. The Nevada Museum of Art’s presentation of Dorothea Lange: Seeing People will be the only West Coast venue for this exhibition.

This exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Major Sponsor
Carol Franc Buck Foundation

Sponsors
Phil and Jennifer Satre

Supporting Sponsor
Kathie Bartlett

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IMAGE 1: Dorothea Lange, Migrant agricultural worker’s family, Nipomo, California (detail), February 1936, Gelatin silver print, Image/sheet: 34 × 26.5 cm (13 3/8 × 10 7/16 in.), Sheet: 35.56 × 27.94 cm (14 × 11 in.). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser 2016.191.3; IMAGE 2: Dorothea Lange, Once a Missouri farmer, now a migratory farm laborer. San Joaquin Valley, California, February 1936, printed c. 1965, Gelatin silver print, Image/sheet: 44.6 × 39.5 cm (17 9/16 × 15 9/16 in.). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser 2016.191.38; IMAGE 3: Dorothea Lange, Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California, from An American Exodus, November 1938, printed later, Gelatin silver print, Image/sheet: 19 × 24 cm (7 1/2 × 9 7/16 in.). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser 2016.191.28; IMAGE 4: Dorothea Lange, White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, California, 1933, Gelatin silver print, Image/sheet: 34 × 26.5 cm (13 3/8 × 10 7/16 in.). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser 2016.191.4 © The Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor; IMAGE 5: Dorothea Lange, Near Coolidge, Arizona. Migratory cotton picker with his cotton sack slung over his shoulder rests at the scales before returning to work in the field, November 1940, printed c. 1965, Gelatin silver print, Image/sheet: 31.5 × 41 cm (12 3/8 × 16 1/8 in.). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser 2016.191.89; IMAGE 6: Dorothea Lange, 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. Black men are sitting on the porch. Brother of store owner stands in doorway, Gordonton, North Carolina, July 1939, printed later, Gelatin silver print, 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.). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, 2018.189.14; IMAGE 7: Dorothea Lange, Residents, of Japanese ancestry, appearing at the Civil control station for registration in response to the Army's exclusion order No. 20-The evacuees will be housed in War relocation authority centers for the duration, San Francisco, California, April 1942, Gelatin silver print, Image: 23.9 x 19 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.) Sheet: 25 x 20.1 cm (9 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser 2018.189.21 © The Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor; IMAGE 8: Dorothea Lange, Street Demonstration, San Francisco, 1934, Gelatin silver print, Image: 24.4 × 19.1 cm (9 5/8 × 7 1/2 in.), Mount: 27.9 × 20.2 cm (11 × 7 15/16 in.). National Gallery of Art, Washington, Diana and Mallory Walker Fund and Robert Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund,in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art 2015.183.1 ©The Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.

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