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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
The Breakfast Room at Belle Grove Plantation, White Chapel, Louisiana, 1935
gelatin silver print, printed 1969–1970 by James Dow
image: 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (19.6 x 24.1 cm.)
sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.4 x 25.5 cm.)
Provenance
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971.
Literature
John Szarkowski, Walker Evans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971, p. 77.
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, pl. 125.
Jerry L. Thompson, Walker Evans at Work, Harper and Row, New York, 1982, p. 110.
Michael Brix, Walker Evans America, Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 1990, pl. 28.
Sarah Greenough, Walker Evans Subways and Streets, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991, pl. 17.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, fig. 464, p. 148.
Exhibition catalogue, Walker Evans Simple Secrets, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1997, p. 89.
James R. Mellow, Walker Evans, Basic Books, New York, 1999, p. 234.
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans and Company, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, pl. 42.
Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, Walker Evans; The Hungry Eye, Thames and Hudson, London, 2004, p. 131.
Walker Evans and Maria Hambourg, Walker Evans, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2004, pl. 46.

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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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