Prelude to Prosperity: American Paintings And Dorothea Lange Southern Photographs 1936–1939

American paintings paired with Dorothea Lange photographs interpret life in the mid 1930s–in a unique gallery online!

Three slide shows.

 

Click any image in the mosaic to enlarge and view the slide show.

Frances Lee Turner: Bulloch Hall, 1934.

William H. Johnson: Early Morning Work, 1940.

Thomas Flavell: Man and Horse, 1934/

Deep South, ca. 1940-1941.

Haldane Douglas: Warehouses, 1934.

Mervin Jules: Dispossessed, 1938.

All of the paintings are from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Flickr collection. The Southern photographs of Dorothea Lange can be found in the online archives of the FSA collection at the Library of Congress website.

All of the Dorothea Lange photographs are available in the new collection: Dorothea Lange Southern Photographs.

Arthur Durston: Industry, 1934.

Glenn Chamberiain: Country Road, 1934

Glenn Chamberiain: Country Road, 1934.

Brooks Willis: Country Store, 1934.

Dorothea Lange Southern Photographs 1936-1937, across 11 states. Harambee edition.

William C. Palmer: Manhattan Island from the Jersey Meadows, 1934.

Gregory Orloff: Gravel Yards, 1934.

William Arthur Cooper: Lumber Industry, 1934.

Earle Richardson: Employment of Negroes in Agriculture, 1934.

Erie Loran: Barge Dock, 1934

Francis Criss: City Store Fronts, 1934/

Leo Breslau: Plowing, 1934.

Charles Pollock: Look Down That Road, 1942.

Jara Henry Valenta: East River, 1934.

Thomas Hart Benton: Planting (Spring Plowing), 1939/

Alice Heun: Barn and Cows, 1934.

 

Th is companion exhibition supports the launch of the new book, “I Believe I can Better Myself:” Dorothea Lange Southern Photographs 1936–1939 by Walter Rhett.

A 5 year project, Rhett has edited and designed the first print volume of Dorothea Lange’s photographs devoted to her Southern photographs for the FSA.

Preview and order the Harambee Edition (the first edition) here.

 

“Woman and Child” by Boram Han

Folk Family, ca. 1940-1941

Malvin Gray Johnson: Brothers, 1934

African Woman–Study in Tunis 1932.

African Woman–Study in Tunis 1932.

Morris Henry Hobbs: The Omen, 1934.