Arthur Rothstein
Wife and child of a sharecropper, Washington County, Arkansas

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Artist Arthur Rothstein American, 1915–1985

Printer Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

CultureAmerican

Titles

Wife and child of a sharecropper, Washington County, Arkansas

DateAugust 1935, printed 1976

Place depictedArkansas, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 13 1/2 × 8 15/16 in. (34.3 × 22.7 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky

Object number76.413

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"Norman Rockwell: American Freedom," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 15, 2019–March 22, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Stamped in black, verso, right center: Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress [reading vertically]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower right: Arthur Rothstein // Sharecropper’s Wife // & Child // Arkansas 1938
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower right corner: 23801 [underlined] // F33-2022-3 // P5 [reading vertically]

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