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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Kitchen, Burroughs Family Cabin, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1962 by Rolf Petersen
credited, titled and dated '1935' on affixed Museum label, with Museum of Modern Art Photography Department Study Collection stamp and various numbers in pencil/red pencil (verso)
image: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (24.1 x 19 cm.)
sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.5 x 20.4 cm.)
Provenance
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962.
Literature
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.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 91.
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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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