Tenant farmer moving his household goods to a new farm, Hamilton County, Tennessee
Artist
Arthur Rothstein
(American, 1915 - 1985)
Date1937
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/16 × 9 3/8 inches (17.94 × 23.81 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/16 × 10 inches (20.48 × 25.4 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/16 × 10 inches (20.48 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.253
SignedArtist’s stamps on sheet verso, center, in black ink: “ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN” / “ARTHUR ROTHESTIN / PHOTOGRAPHY / from the collection of / GRACE ROTHSTEIN”
InscribedTitled on sheet verso, center, in pencil: “Tenant farmer moving, / Hamilton Co., Tenn., / 1937, Rothstein.”
MarkingsStamp on sheet verso, center, in black ink: “Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress”;
On sheet verso, top, in pencil: “RS”;
On sheet verso, upper right, in pencil: “2022/41 [circled] / F34-25485”;
On sheet verso, upper right, in red pencil: “18” [circled];
On sheet verso, right edge, in pencil: “PF 9119” [partially erased], “<7.25>”, “PF111193-111”.
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of man standing next to car smoking cigarette and looking under hood; the back of the vehicle is stacked high with a mattress, chairs, and personal belongings.Exhibition HistoryDignity vs. Despair: Dorothea Lange and the Depression Era Photographers, 1933-1941. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 23 – November 26, 2017, no cat.
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
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Arthur Rothstein
1935
2016.75.252
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June 1938
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