Man walking down a country road from the Kenneally family farm, County Clare, Ireland
1954
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 26.5 × 21.5 cm (10 7/16 × 8 7/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser
Accession Number
2016.191.56
Art Historical Context
Step into the tranquil Irish countryside captured in Dorothea Lange's *Man walking down a country road the Kenneally family, County Clare, Ireland (1954). This gelatin silver print, measuring 26.5 × 21.5 cm, depicts a solitary figure traversing a rural path, evoking the quiet rhythms of mid-20th-century farm life in Ireland's rugged west. Lange, renowned for her poignant documentary photography during the Great Depression—most famously *Migrant Mother* (1936)—shifted her lens later in life to global subjects, including this intimate portrait of everyday existence. Taken during one of Lange's ...
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...