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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Easton, Pennsylvania, 1935
gelatin silver print, printed 1969–1970 by James Dow
variously numbered in pencil (verso)
image/sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.4 x 25.5 cm.)
Provenance
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971.
Literature
Lincoln Kirstein, Walker Evans: American Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, part II, pl. 2.
James Szarkowski, Walker Evans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971, p. 141.
Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York, 1975, pl. 46.
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 114.
Jerry L. Thompson, Walker Evans at Work, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, p. 120.
James R. Mellow, Walker Evans, Basic Books, New York, 1991, p. 273.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 162.
Ellen Fleurov, Walker Evans: Simple Secrets, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1997, p. 100-101.
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This work was printed in conjunction with the exhibition Walker Evans presented by The Museum of Modern Art in 1971.

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