Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma

Arthur Rothstein, artist

1915–1985

Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936

Portfolio/Series title: Arthur Rothstein portfolio

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: gelatin silver print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 22.5 x 22.5 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 8 7/8 x 8 7/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 16 in

Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick M. Myers

Accession number: 1983.0141

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Spencer Museum of Art Highlights

In a 1977 interview, Rothstein recalled, “I lived in the Dust Bowl for several months and went out every day and took pictures. One day, wandering around through Cimarron County in Oklahoma…I photographed a farm and the people who lived there. The farmer and his two children, two little boys, were walking past a shed on their property, and I took a photograph with the dust swirling all around them…It was a picture that had a very simple kind of composition, but there was something about the swirling dust and the shed behind the farmer. What it did was the kind of thing Roy [Stryker] always talked about—it showed an individual in relation to his environment.”

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Webpage Text:
"2013 Common Work of Art"
In conjunction with KU’s selection of The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan as its Common Book for the 2013–2014 academic year, the Spencer Museum of Art has selected a series of objects that chronicle the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, its aftermath, and memory.