Artist Monograph

Arthur Rothstein, American

American, 1915–1985

Production by Decade

1930s

1940s

1960s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	22	84.6%
Medium (30–100 cm)	4	15.4%

Range: 16.2 cm → 33.7 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1938	2
1941	7
1944	11
1959	2
2002	2
2016	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 26 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Farmer Who will be Resettled, Wolf Creek Farms, Georgia Photograph Acc. 315.1938	September 1935	Gelatin silver print	8 × 10" (20.3 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Home of Postmaster Brown, Old Rag, Virginia Photograph Acc. 329.1959	October 1935	Gelatin silver print	10 1/2 × 13 1/4" (26.7 × 33.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Mrs. Bailey Nicholson, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia Photograph Acc. 57.1944	October 1935	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 6 7/8" (24.1 × 17.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Mrs. Dodson and One of her Nine Children, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia Photograph Acc. 54.1944	October 1935	Gelatin silver print	9 × 6 3/4" (22.9 × 17.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Wife and child of a sharecropper, Washington County, Arkansas Photograph Acc. 211.1941	August 1935	Gelatin silver print	9 5/8 × 6 1/2" (24.4 × 16.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
A Kincaider who is Still Proving his Claim with One Year to Go, Pennington County, South Dakota, (Man playing fiddle) Photograph Acc. 53.1944	May 1936	Gelatin silver print	6 7/8 × 9 1/2" (17.5 × 24.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
An Abandoned Farm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma Photograph Acc. 317.1938	April 1936	Gelatin silver print	7 1/2 × 7 5/8" (19 × 19.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Children of Migratory Fruit Workers, Yakima, Washington Photograph Acc. 55.1944	July 1936	Gelatin silver print	6 3/8 × 5" (16.2 × 12.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Drover's Hotel Opposite Stockyards, Kansas City, Kansas Photograph Acc. 194.2002	May 1936	Gelatin silver print	7 1/2 × 9 5/8" (19.1 × 24.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Farmer and Sons Walking in Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma Photograph Acc. 330.1959	April 1936	Gelatin silver print	10 1/16 × 13 1/4" (25.6 × 33.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Logs Coming up Conveyor into Mill, Longview, Washington Photograph Acc. 56.1944	July 1936	Gelatin silver print	7 3/8 × 9 1/4" (18.7 × 23.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Mountain People, Garrett County, Maryland Photograph Acc. 210.1941	November 1936	Gelatin silver print	7 1/2 × 7 5/8" (19 × 19.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Skull, Badlands, South Dakota Photograph Acc. 62.1944	May 1936	Gelatin silver print	7 3/8 × 7 1/2" (18.7 × 19 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
South Dakota Drought Refugee, Montana Photograph Acc. 212.1941	July 1936	Gelatin silver print	7 3/8 × 9 5/8" (18.7 × 24.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Baby of Ralph Wallace, Farmer, Oswego County, New York Photograph Acc. 206.1944	December 1937	Gelatin silver print	7 1/8 × 9 1/2" (18.1 × 24.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Dorothea Lange
Bachelor Farm Home, New York Photograph Acc. 207.1941	December 1937	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 7 1/2" (24.1 × 19 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Blacksmith, Lowell, Vermont Photograph Acc. 316.1938	September 1937	Gelatin silver print	8 × 10" (20.3 × 25.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Clarence Tilton and Pearl Rood, Oswego County, New York, Bachelor Farmers, New York Photograph Acc. 206.1941	December 1937	Gelatin silver print	7 5/8 × 9 5/8" (19.4 × 24.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Forest Carpenter, Handy Man, Eden Mills, Vermont, Handyman, Vermont Photograph Acc. 208.1941	1937	Gelatin silver print	9 5/8 × 7 3/4" (24.4 × 19.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
The Bittenger family and his cabin in which they live. Garrett County, Maryland Photograph Acc. 209.1941	1937	Gelatin silver print	7 1/4 × 9 5/8" (18.4 × 24.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the Farm Security Administration
Beer Tavern, Peoria, Illinois Photograph Acc. 193.2002	1938	Gelatin silver print	6 5/16 × 9 5/8" (16.1 × 24.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Change of Shift at the Steel Plant, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania Photograph Acc. 59.1944	July 1938	Gelatin silver print	5 3/8 × 9 1/2" (13.7 × 24.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Copper Pit, Ruth, Nevada Photograph Acc. 60.1944	March 1940	Gelatin silver print	9 1/2 × 7 1/8" (24.1 × 18.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Mountain Farm, Rappahannock County, Virginia Photograph Acc. 58.1944	January 1940	Gelatin silver print	7 1/8 × 9 3/8" (18.1 × 23.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
U.S. Highway 30, Sweetwater County, Wyoming Photograph Acc. 63.1944	March 1940	Gelatin silver print	9 3/4 × 13" (24.8 × 33 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of the artist
Untitled Photograph Acc. 498.2016	c. 1963	Gelatin silver print	8 1/4 × 11 15/16" (21 × 30.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Robert B. Menschel

The Met (CC0 Open Access) — 1 record

Title / Object	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Culture / Geography	Department	Rights
[African American Family at Gee's Bend, Alabama] Photograph	1937	Gelatin silver print	18.1 x 24.1 cm (7 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. )		Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY	Public domain (CC0) ULAN Artist Wikidata