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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Negro Church, South Carolina, 1936
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1962 by the Library of Congress
credited in pencil, stamped photographer's '124 EAST 85th ST' and 'Lunn Gallery' credits, also stamped 'Reproduced from the Collections/of the Library of Congress' and 'STUDY COLLECTION/ PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT/ MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, N.Y.' (verso)
image/sheet: 9 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. (23.1 x 18 cm.)

Provenance
Acquired c. 1962.
Literature
Lincoln Kirstein, Walker Evans: American Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, part II, pl. 19.
Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York, 1975, pl. 194.
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 84.
Jerry L. Thompson, Walker Evans at Work, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, pp. 144, 145.
Exhibition catalogue, Walker Evans, America, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 1990, pl. 54.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, pp. 152, 153.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pl. 503, p. 158.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 78.
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, fig. 276, p. 219.
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