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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Southern Farmer’s Bed (Burroughs Family Cabin), Hale County, Alabama, 1936
gelatin silver print, printed 1971 by Jim Dow
credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 758 x 958 in. (19.4 x 24.4 cm.)
sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm.)
Provenance
Museum of Modern Art, New York;
Pace/MacGill Gallery;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
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 18391989, 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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