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WALKER EVANS (1903-1975)
Tin building, Moundville, Alabama (Richard Perkins, contractor), 1936
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed in pencil (overmat, recto); numbered '13' by an unknown hand in pencil (verso)
image/sheet: 8 x 978 in. (20.3 x 25.1 cm.)
Provenance
Directly from the artist to Bobbi Carrey, his assistant;
Stephen Rose Gallery, Boston;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
John Szarkowski, Walker Evans Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971, p. 103.
Walker Evans, Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938: A Catalogue of Photographic Prints Available from the Farm Security Administration Collection in the Library of Congress, Dacapa Press, New York, 1973, cat. number 241.
Walker Evans, Walker Evans: First and Last, Harper & Row, New York, 1978, p. 96
Michael Brix and Birgit Mayer (eds.), Walker Evans America, Rizzoli, New York, 1991, pl. 64.
Giles Mora and John T. Hill, Walker Evans the Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1993, p.149.
Walker Evans, Incognito, Eakins Press Foundation, New York, 1995.
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, p. 221, pl. 278.
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