Egypt, Dorothea Lange, 1963
Dorothea Lange, portraitDorothea LangeAmerican, 1895–1965

Egypt

1963 · Photograph

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Not on view at present

Where is “Egypt” now? Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Not on view at present. Checked September 29, 2026.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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The museum

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Accession number
2016.191.128

What it shows

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Meanwhile, in the life of Dorothea Lange

The whole life
  1. 1955–1965

    Her health declines

    Lange’s health declined in the last decade of her life; among other conditions she suffered from what was later identified as post-polio syndrome.

  2. c. 1965

    Helps to curate her MoMA retrospective

    Shortly before her death Lange helped curate a retrospective of her work for the Museum of Modern Art in New York; it opened three months after she died and was MoMA’s first solo retrospective of a woman photographer.

  3. 11 October 1965

    Dies of oesophageal cancer

    Lange died in San Francisco at the age of seventy; she was survived by her second husband, the economist Paul Schuster Taylor, two children and three stepchildren.

  4. 11 October 1965

    Died

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