The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 24, 2024

Resident, Conway, Arkansas

Resident, Conway, Arkansas

1938
(American, 1895–1965)
Image: 24.5 x 19.5 cm (9 5/8 x 7 11/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
© The Dorothea Lange Collection, Oakland Museum of California, City of Oakland. Gift of Paul S. Taylor
Location: not on view

Description

A great deal is known about 27-year-old Allie Mae Burroughs, whose portrait is one of the most iconic images of the Depression. Featured in James Agee and Walker Evans’s book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (on view in this exhibition) under the pseudonym Mrs. Gudger, she was a poor sharecropper’s wife and mother of four. The only thing known about Lange’s subject is the name of her town. These two women in their twenties, faces lined with care, were photographed mug-shot style, head-on against weathered wood walls. Despite facing great adversity, both demonstrate determination and fortitude, and perhaps a hint of defiance at being offered up as specimens of rural and small town suffering during the Depression.
  • Lisa Dixon-Perrin (the artist's granddaughter)
  • Heyman, Therese Thau, Sandra S. Phillips, and John Szarkowski. Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. 1994. p. 190, no. 70, repr. plate 70
    E. H. T. "The Year in Review: Selections 1989." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 2 (1990): 38-78. Mentioned: p.68 25160106
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 219
    Lange, Susanne , and Anne Ganteführer. Photographien im Dialog = A dialog between photographs: eine Sonderschau der Photographischen Sammlung. Köln, Deutschland: SK Stiftung Kultur, 1997. Reproduced: p.51
  • From Riches to Rags: American Photography in the Depression. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 13-December 31, 2017).
    Icons of American Photography: A Century of Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-September 16, 2007); Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, PA (October 3, 2009-January 3, 2010).
    A Dialog Between Photographs. August Sander Archiv, Köln, Germany (May 23-August 10, 1997).
    The Year in Review for 1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990).
    Dorothea Lange: American Photographs. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (May 19-September 5, 1994); Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (September 23-November 20, 1994); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (December 12, 1994-February 19, 1995); International Center for Photography, New York, NY (March 3-April 19, 1995).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1989.62