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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Chicken Coop on Floyd Burroughs’ Farm, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1962 by Rolf Petersen
credited and numbered 'RA-8129-A' in pencil, stamped 'STUDY COLLECTION/ PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT/ MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, N.Y.' (verso)
image: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (19.1 x 24.2 cm.)
sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.4 x 25.5 cm.)
Provenance
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962.
Literature
Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York, 1975, pl. 268.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pl. 543, p. 167.
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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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