Girl at Gee's Bend, Alabama [Artelia Bendolph] by Arthur Rothstein
Art Institute of Chicago

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

Arthur Rothstein · April 1937

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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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