Object number2018.39.5

Girl at Gee's Bend, Alabama [Artelia Bendolph]

Date1937

Artist Arthur Rothstein (American, 1915-1985)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print, printed later

DimensionsImage: 10 3/4 x 13 7/8 in. (27.3 x 35.2 cm)
Sheet: 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hilary Leff and Elliot Groffman

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand(s), lower right in pencil: 3000 AR-181.22 73; lower left edge: Gee's Bend / G 40 - 14

MarkingsOn verso, stamped lower left corner: ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN / PHOTOGRAPH / from the collection of / GRACE ROTHSTEIN

BibliographyArthur Rothstein: Words and Pictures, 1979; (New York: Amphoto, 1979), p. 44; Rothstein, Arthur. The Depression Years / as Photographed by Arthur Rothstein. New York: Dover Publications, 1978, p. 9

Vassar Exhibitions

Interwoven Histories: Prints by the Gee’s Bend Quilt Collective

Exhibition HistoryInterwoven Histories: Prints by the Gee's Bend Quilting Collective, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 9, 2023 - January 28, 2024
DescriptionBlack and white image of a young girl, Artelia Bendolph, looking out of a window in a log cabin. The inside of the wooden window is pasted with newspaper advertisements.

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