Housing, Richmond, Virginia. Twelve Dollars a Month for Three Rooms

Artist Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965)

CultureAmerican

Date1938, printed ca. 1984

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 3/8 × 7 5/16 in. (23.8 × 18.6 cm)
Overall, Paper: 9 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (25.1 × 20 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 15/16 × 16 in. (50.6 × 40.6 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund

Object number84.78.123

Not on view

DescriptionThis is one of a series of 132 FSA photographs of Virginia; all are gelatin silver prints.

Label TextDorothea Lange American, 1895−1965 Housing. Richmond, Virginia. Twelve Dollars a Month for Three Rooms, 1938 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed ca. 1984 During the 1930s, Dorothea Lange, Paul Carter, and other photographers crisscrossed the country to document the hardships suffered during the Great Depression. Their depictions of the daily lives of the poor and working class, including African Americans, helped justify President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal economic assistance programs. The faces and stories in these photos had a powerful emotional impact on audiences, and these works became models for the younger generation of photographers who used their cameras in the service of the Civil Rights Movement. Museum purchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund 84.78.123 ProvenancePurchased prints from Library of Congress (negatives on file at Library of Congress,) 1984.Exhibition History"Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, May 3 - June 16, 1985. "Women: Art and Identity," Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Va., June 24 - August 26, 2004. "Women of the Chrysler: a 400-Year Celebration of the Arts," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., March 24 - July 18, 2010. "Photographic Histories," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, May 10 - August 17, 2014. "Women and the Civil Rights Movement," Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 14 - October 30, 2016. "Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from the Do Good Fund," Chrysler Museum of Art, August 11, 2023 - November 5, 2023.Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson. _Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs_. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA. 1985: p. 9.