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15 Items in this Learning Collection
Hunger
This sparely executed lithograph depicts, from left to right, a young boy, an aged man in a hat, and an aged woman in a shawl looking at the food on display in a shop window, bananas, cheese, sausage, and wine, among other items.
Collection Object
Enrolls for National Service - Members
Text: Enrolls for National Service - Members - Instructions For Use - To the Principal or Teacher: Have the school children draw in the name of the school at the top of the poster after careful lettering under your direction. Exhibit the poster at the Lincoln's Birthday Exercise, and hang it in a prominent place during the enrollment period which ends on Washington's Birthday. At Washington's Birthday Exercise let some of the children, as part of the ceremony, paste in figures representing the number of children enrolled above the word Members.
Collection Object
Watching Geese
This landscape makes use of the wide range of tones possible from black ink and water. A man stands in a mountain clearing, gazing at geese in the distance. Calligraphic text is written vertically in the upper left corner.
Collection Object
Girl at Gee's Bend
A photograph of a young girl looking out of a window in a log cabin. The inside of the wooden window is pasted with newspaper advertisements.
Collection Object
The Way to Deadman's Cove
This vertical print is created as if the viewer is in a dark, coniferous forest, looking out to a glare of light indication the sea and cove. The forest scene has three trees in the middle of the composition; a straight narrow tree lies in the middle, with a tree next to it leaning diagonally to the right, and a smaller tree in the background to the left. On either side of the composition are more trees. Behind the middle trees we can see the forest open up with a lighter space. The bottom third of the composition shows the forest floor, a faint path, and shadows cast by the trees.
Collection Object
Village Wedding
A wedding party on horseback—led by the bride in white with a veil, and the groom in a cowboy hat—leaves a village while a crowd watches. Each of the horses is a different color, including red, gray, and different shades of brown. The people are dressed in bright, solid-colored clothes. Some wear brimmed hats. The village, consisting of a few houses and fields of green plants, palm trees, and trees with large purple and pink leaves, surrounds the wedding party on three sides. There is a clear blue sky overhead. 
Collection Object
The Couple in Raccoon Coats
This is a photograph of an African American couple. A man sits inside his car, while a woman stands just outside, as if she is about to sit in the passenger seat. They both wear large raccoon coats. 
Collection Object
Platinum Kairagi Shino Bowl

Collection Object
Young Woman with Mandolin
This painting depicts the abstract form of a woman sitting in a chair with her head, shown in profile and tilted upward. There is a stringed instrument in her lap and her hands rest on the arms of the chair. It is painted in muted colors of aqua and lavender with brighter areas of yellow, orange and blue. The figure, chair and instrument are created with just a few black lines to suggest their forms.
Collection Object
MG-Collection
This landscape makes use of the wide range of tones possible from black ink and water. A man stands in a mountain clearing, gazing at geese in the distance. Calligraphic text is written vertically in the upper left corner.
Resource with 12 media
Shad Tree in Bloom, Great Smoky Mountains, 14 April 1968
This photograph is of a temperate forest at the beginning of springtime.  A small blooming tree occupies the center of the frame.
Collection Object
15 Items in this Learning Collection
Hunger
This sparely executed lithograph depicts, from left to right, a young boy, an aged man in a hat, and an aged woman in a shawl looking at the food on display in a shop window, bananas, cheese, sausage, and wine, among other items.
Collection Object
Enrolls for National Service - Members
Text: Enrolls for National Service - Members - Instructions For Use - To the Principal or Teacher: Have the school children draw in the name of the school at the top of the poster after careful lettering under your direction. Exhibit the poster at the Lincoln's Birthday Exercise, and hang it in a prominent place during the enrollment period which ends on Washington's Birthday. At Washington's Birthday Exercise let some of the children, as part of the ceremony, paste in figures representing the number of children enrolled above the word Members.
Collection Object
Watching Geese
This landscape makes use of the wide range of tones possible from black ink and water. A man stands in a mountain clearing, gazing at geese in the distance. Calligraphic text is written vertically in the upper left corner.
Collection Object
Girl at Gee's Bend
A photograph of a young girl looking out of a window in a log cabin. The inside of the wooden window is pasted with newspaper advertisements.
Collection Object
The Way to Deadman's Cove
This vertical print is created as if the viewer is in a dark, coniferous forest, looking out to a glare of light indication the sea and cove. The forest scene has three trees in the middle of the composition; a straight narrow tree lies in the middle, with a tree next to it leaning diagonally to the right, and a smaller tree in the background to the left. On either side of the composition are more trees. Behind the middle trees we can see the forest open up with a lighter space. The bottom third of the composition shows the forest floor, a faint path, and shadows cast by the trees.
Collection Object
Village Wedding
A wedding party on horseback—led by the bride in white with a veil, and the groom in a cowboy hat—leaves a village while a crowd watches. Each of the horses is a different color, including red, gray, and different shades of brown. The people are dressed in bright, solid-colored clothes. Some wear brimmed hats. The village, consisting of a few houses and fields of green plants, palm trees, and trees with large purple and pink leaves, surrounds the wedding party on three sides. There is a clear blue sky overhead. 
Collection Object
The Couple in Raccoon Coats
This is a photograph of an African American couple. A man sits inside his car, while a woman stands just outside, as if she is about to sit in the passenger seat. They both wear large raccoon coats. 
Collection Object
Platinum Kairagi Shino Bowl

Collection Object
Young Woman with Mandolin
This painting depicts the abstract form of a woman sitting in a chair with her head, shown in profile and tilted upward. There is a stringed instrument in her lap and her hands rest on the arms of the chair. It is painted in muted colors of aqua and lavender with brighter areas of yellow, orange and blue. The figure, chair and instrument are created with just a few black lines to suggest their forms.
Collection Object
MG-Collection
This landscape makes use of the wide range of tones possible from black ink and water. A man stands in a mountain clearing, gazing at geese in the distance. Calligraphic text is written vertically in the upper left corner.
Resource with 12 media
Shad Tree in Bloom, Great Smoky Mountains, 14 April 1968
This photograph is of a temperate forest at the beginning of springtime.  A small blooming tree occupies the center of the frame.
Collection Object

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Girl at Gee's Bend

Accession Number
2000/2.5

Title
Girl at Gee's Bend

Artist(s)
Arthur Rothstein

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
1937, printed 1975

Medium & Support
gelatin silver print on paper

Dimensions
19 15/16 in x 15 15/16 in (50.6 cm x 40.5 cm);24 1/8 in x 20 1/16 in (61.3 cm x 51 cm)

Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund

Subject matter
Arthur Rothstein worked as the first hired photographer for the Farm Security Administration and is considered among America's premier photojournalists. Throughout his career, he photographed a range of subjects with social commentary being a primary concern. One of his early projects was photographing tenancies in 1937 and effects of the Resettlement Administration in the South. This photograph of a young girl at Gee's Bend, Alabama, illustrates the living conditions of the settlements, while also providing a moving commentary on social inequality through the framing of the young girl next to a newspaper advertisement of a prosperous blonde, white woman. 

Physical Description
A photograph of a young girl looking out of a window in a log cabin. The inside of the wooden window is pasted with newspaper advertisements.

Primary Object Classification
Photograph

Collection Area
Photography

Rights
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Keywords
buildings
girl
girls
log cabins (houses)
newspapers
poverty
race (group of people)
standing
window
windows

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