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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Southern Farmer’s Bed (Burroughs Family Cabin), Hale County, Alabama, 1936
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1962 by Rolf Petersen
credited, numbered 'RA-8134-A' and variously otherwise annotated in pencil/black crayon (verso)
image: 10 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (27.3 x 34.9 cm.)
sheet: 11 x 14 in. (28 x 35.7 cm.)
Provenance
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962.
Literature
James Szarkowski, Walker Evans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971, p. 95.
Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York, 1975, pl. 267.
Exhibition catalogue, The Art of Photography 1839–1989, The Royal Academy of the Arts, London, 1989, pl. 306.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 204.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pl. 534, p. 165.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 93.

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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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