New photography by Ed Pollard captured with a digital camera-2006.

Moving into New Home, Newport News Homesteads, Virginia

Artist Arthur Rothstein (American, 1915-1985)

CultureAmerican

Date1937, printed ca. 1984

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 7/16 × 7 1/16 in. (24 × 17.9 cm)
Overall, Paper: 9 15/16 × 8 in. (25.2 × 20.3 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund

Object number84.78.27

Not on view

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

Label TextArthur Rothstein American, 1915–1985 Moving into New Home, Newport News Homesteads, Virginia, November 1937 Gelatin silver print (photograph), printed 1984 The first residents of Aberdeen Gardens, a planned community for African Americans on the peninsula, were Charles and Maggie Jones. Curiously, they are not represented here. To make this photograph Arthur Rothstein hired people to pose as new tenants. Although reports suggest tenants were delighted to move into the new community, Rothstein’s models emphasize the new residents’ happiness. Chrysler Museum purchase 84.78.27 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. "Portraying a Nation: American Portrait Photography, 1850-2010," Alice R. and Sol B. Frank Photo Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, August 25, 2010 - September 11, 2011. "Women and the Civil Rights Movement," Photography Galleries, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, June 14 - October 30, 2016.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. 47.