Irish child, County Clare, Ireland
1954
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 25.4 × 25.4 cm (10 × 10 in.) sheet: 35.2 × 27.9 cm (13 7/8 × 11 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
Accession Number
2016.191.113
Art Historical Context
**Irish Child, County Clare, Ireland** Dorothea Lange, 1954, gelatin silver print* othea Lange, one of America's most celebrated documentary photographers, is best known for her empathetic portraits of the dispossessed during the Great Depression, such as the iconic *Migrant Mother*. In1954, later in her career, she her lens to Ireland during a trip that explored rural life and human resilience. This intimate gelatin silver print captures a child from County Clare, a rugged region on Ireland's west coast, evoking the quiet dignity of everyday existence amid post-World War II hardships. T...
About the Artist
Dorothea Lange · 1895–1965
Dorothea Lange, born Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn on May 26, 1895, in Hoboken, New Jersey, overcame significant personal challenges to become one of America's most influential documentary photographers. Stricken with polio at age seven, she developed a lifelong limp that she credited with shaping her empathetic worldview, famously stating it "formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me, and hum...