Picturing the West Depression Era Photography: Lange, Lee, and Rothstein
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 - sallyo
March 9 to March 27, 2007. Rare opportunity to view famous photographs by Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, and Arthur Rothstein.
The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, located on the campus of Utah State University, Logan, announces an exhibition of photographs, “Picturing the West Depression Era Photography: Lange, Lee and Rothstein.”
Selected by cultural historian and USU faculty member Victoria Grieve, the photographs are examples of the museum’s collection of Farm Security Administration photographs that document the plight of the rural poor in the 1930s.
Grieve will provide an exhibition lecture Friday, March 9, at 6:30 p.m. in the museum lobby. Following the lecture at 7:30 p.m., a performance by Utah Opera Ensemble will include selections from the new opera based on John Steinbeck’s classic American novel “The Grapes of Wrath.”
The exhibition will be at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art through March 27th. The exhibition will travel to the Alta club in Salt Lake City where it will be on display April 1-July 13. For more information on the Alta Club event, contact Michael Chipman at
michael.chipman@usu.edu.
For more information about “Picturing the West Depression Era Photography: Lange, Lee and Rothstein” or to schedule a tour of the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, call (435) 797-0165.
The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art is located on the USU campus at 650 North 1100 East, Logan, Utah, 84322, (435) 797-0163; fax (435) 7978-3423. Information is available at the museum’s Web site,
http://www.usu.edu/artmuseum. The museum is open Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, noon-4 p.m. The museum is closed Sundays, Mondays and holidays. Admission is free.
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