![Girl at Gee's Bend, Alabama [Artelia Bendolph] by Arthur Rothstein](https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/5219b4ae-a3d0-59f5-db39-deb069db2d1e/full/843,/0/default.jpg)
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Girl at Gee's Bend, Alabama [Artelia Bendolph]
Arthur Rothstein · April 1937
Provenance
Ownership history
- The Farm Security Administration, by 1940; given to author Richard Wright, 1940/41; private collection; sold to Richard Moore by Swann Auction Galleries, Printed & Manuscript African Americana sale, March 30, 2017, lot 471; sold to the Art institute, 2018.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s," September 21, 2019–January 19, 2020. (Galleries 1–4) (Elizabeth Siegel and Elizabeth McGoey)
Literature
Published references
- Matthew S. Witkovsky et al., "The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media," eds. Antawan I. Byrd, Elizabeth Siegel, and Carl Fuldner, pl. 381, p. 389 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2023).
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