Weighing Cotton, Kaufman County, Texas

1936

Arthur Rothstein

Associated Names
Arthur Rothstein

Artist, American, 1915 - 1985

This is a photograph of a group of individuals beside a wooden cart and some large sacks in a rural field. The image shows a wooden cart with a large wheel on either side, resting on a dirt path with a woven field in the background. Large, filled sacks are being weighed or handled using a scale and pulley system. The scene is captured under a clear sky, with shadows on the ground suggesting the sun is overhead. The atmosphere depicts labor and simple rural life, with clothing and equipment hinting at a historical setting. The wooden cart and the earthy terrain provide a sense of the agricultural lifestyle and toil associated with it.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 16.5 × 21.8 cm (6 1/2 × 8 9/16 in.)
    mount: 33 × 27.7 cm (13 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.30.125


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 9 February 1996; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on mount in graphite: Arthur Rothstein; on verso, by artist, lower center in graphite: Weighing Cotton, Kaufman County, Texas-1936; center: 5199D; by unknown hand, top left in graphite: OL; top right circled: 14; center circled: 96; center FSA stamp in black ink; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: PF-9152; bottom right: 044930


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