Kitchen, Burroughs Family Cabin, Hale County, Alabama, 1936

Name: WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Brand: Kitchen, Burroughs Family Cabin, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
Price: 2200.00 USD
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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)

Kitchen, Burroughs Family Cabin, Hale County, Alabama, 1936

Price Realised USD 2,750

WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Kitchen, Burroughs Family Cabin, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1962
credited, titled and dated on affixed Museum of Modern Art exhibition label with reproduction limitation, stamped 'PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT/ The Museum of Modern Art', titled, dated '1935', numbered 'RA-8137-1' and variously otherwise numbered in pencil (verso)
image: 13 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. (34.9 x 26.6 cm.)
sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.7 x 28 cm.)

James Szarkowski, Walker Evans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971, p. 86.
Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York, 1975, pl. 264.
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 76.
Jerry L. Thompson, Walker Evans at Work, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, p. 128.
Exhibition catalogue, Walker Evans, America, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 1990, pl. 87.
James R. Mellow, Walker Evans, Basic Books, New York, 1991, p. 330.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 91.

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The present lot is a print made for publicity related to the exhibition The Bitter Years: 1935–1941 presented by The Museum of Modern Art in 1962. Throughout the history of the Museum’s Photography Department, primarily from the 1930s through the 1970s, photographers contributing works to exhibitions would oftentimes provide the Museum with multiple prints of the works selected for exhibition. These additional prints would be used for various exhibition-related affairs, most often for being sent to the press for publicity. Such prints were sometimes provided by the photographer or printed at the Museum from original negatives.