Name: WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Brand: Allie Mae Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
Price: 8500.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Allie Mae Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1962 by Rolf Petersen
credited and numbered '8139A' in pencil, also numbered '#85' in orange pencil (verso)
image: 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. (24.7 x 16.5 cm.)
sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.5 x 20.4 cm.)

Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 73.
Exhibition catalogue, Walker Evans, America, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 1990, pl. 79.
James R. Mellow, Walker Evans, Basic Books, New York, 1991, p. 325.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 202.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pl. 532, p. 165.
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, fig. 39, p. 62.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 89.
Jeff L. Rosenheim and Douglas Eklund, Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology, Scalo, New York, 2000, p. 180.

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This work was printed in conjunction with the exhibition The Bitter Years: 1935–1941 presented by The Museum of Modern Art in 1962.