Art from the Dust Bowl
The photograph speaks to me because it shows the struggle that the people had during the Dust Bowl. People were getting lost and families. Arthur Rothstein was born in New York in 1915. He attended the Angelo Patri School in the Bronx and while a student at Columbia University he developed an interest in photography. Two of his tutors, Roy Striker and Rex Tugwell, asked him to help with the picture editing of a textbook they were working on.During the Depression Rothstein was invited by Roy Stryker to join the the federally sponsored Farm Security Administration (FSA) that was established in 1935 by Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1936 Rothstein was sent to document the Dust Bowl. While in Cimarron County he took a photograph that became known as Fleeing a Dust Storm. The photograph, showing a man and his two sons in a dust storm, became one of the great motifs of the 1930s and was eventually appeared in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.