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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Street Scene, New York City, 1938
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1962 by the Library of Congress
credited and variously numbered in pencil, stamped 'STUDY COLLECTION/ PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT/ MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, N.Y.' and 'Reproduced from the Collections/ of the Library of Congress' with reproduction limitation (verso)
image: 7 x 9 1/2 in. (17.9 x 24.1 cm.)
sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.4 x 25.5 cm.)

Provenance
Acquired c. 1962.
Literature
James Szarkowski, Walker Evans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971, p. 146.
Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York, 1975, pl. 471.
Jerry L. Thompson, Walker Evans at Work, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, p. 148.
Sarah Greenough, Walker Evans; Subways and Streets, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991, pl. 20.
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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.

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