WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Alabama Tenant Farmer (Floyd Burroughs), Hale County, Alabama, 1936
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1961 by Rolf Petersen
credited, titled and dated on affixed typed label, stamped 'STUDY COLLECTION/ PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT/ MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, N.Y.', numbered 'RA 8138-A' and variously otherwise numbered, annotated in pencil/orange pencil (verso)
image: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (24.2 x 19.1 cm.)
sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.5 x 20.4 cm.)

James Szarkowski, Walker Evans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971, p. 83.
Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York, 1975, pl. 249.
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 72.
Exhibition catalogue, Walker Evans, America, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 1990, pl. 80.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 202.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pl. 531, p. 164.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 88.

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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.