{"id":18799,"date":"2023-05-22T11:39:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T15:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=18799"},"modified":"2023-06-06T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:08:08","slug":"arthur-rothstein-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/arthur-rothstein-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Rothstein Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Arthur Rothstein\u00a0(American, 1915-1985)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With a career that spanned five decades, Rothstein is an icon among American photojournalists. He is particularly well known for his work during the Great Depression as one of the photographers hired to document rural communities across the nation for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). One such photograph, \u201cDust Bowl Cimarron County, Oklahoma,\u201d is one of the most recognizable photographs taken during the Depression that showcased the desolation of the land. He had a substantial impact on public perception of the Dust Bowl and the need to support struggling farmers.&nbsp;Following his five-year stint with the FSA and some time working for the United States Office of War Information, Rothstein became a head photographer for <em>Look<\/em> magazine, a general interest publication with an emphasis on photojournalism. Rothstein\u2019s portrait of artist John Marin, seen in this show, would have been taken during his early years with <em>Look <\/em>as a staff photographer. Rothstein\u2019s work can be found in many museum collections around the world, and over 30 of his works are part of the permanent collection at the Bates Museum of Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"712\" data-id=\"17645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1986.12.27-900x712.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1986.12.27-900x712.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1986.12.27-379x300.webp 379w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1986.12.27-768x608.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1986.12.27-1536x1216.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1986.12.27-793x628.jpg 793w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/03\/1986.12.27.webp 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Arthur Rothstein, <em>John Marin in his Studio, Hoboken<\/em>, New Jersey, 1949, photograph, 10 3\/4 x 13 3\/4 in., Gift of Frederick M. Myers \u201886, 1986.12.27<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Rothstein\u00a0(American, 1915-1985) With a career that spanned five decades, Rothstein is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-18799","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19363,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18799\/revisions\/19363"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}