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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Butcher Sign, Mississippi, 1936
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1969 by Charles Rodemeyer
numbered 'P-120' in pencil (verso)
image: 6 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. (16.9 x 24.2 cm.)
sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.4 x 25.5 cm.)

Provenance
Gifted by the artist.
Literature
Lincoln Kirstein, Walker Evans: American Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, part II, pl. 31.
Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York, 1975, pl. 116.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 63.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pls. 477, 478, pp. 151-152.

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