Dorothea LangeAmerican, 1895–1965Nile Valley
Can I see it?
Not on view at present
Where is “Nile Valley” now? Collection: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Not on view at present. Checked September 22, 2026.
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
- Checked
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- 573.1995
In the catalog
Sources
- The Museum of Modern Art
- Image: The Museum of Modern Art — © the artist or rights holder
In the life of Dorothea Lange
The whole life1955–1965
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.
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.
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.
11 October 1965
Died
