Name: WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Brand: Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer's Wife, 1936
Price: 12000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer's Wife, 1936
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board, mounted on secondary board, printed probably 1950s-1960s
signed and dated in pencil (secondary mount, recto); credited, titled and dated in pencil with reproduction imitation stamp and inscription in ink (secondary mount, verso)
image/sheet/flush mount: 7⁵⁄₈ x 5⁵⁄₈ in. (19.3 x 14.2 cm.)
secondary mount: 18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.5 cm.)

Acquired by a private collector, New Haven, early 1970s;
by descent to the present owner.

Walker Evans and Lincoln Kirstein, Walker Evans: American Photographs, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, pl. 14 (variant).
Walker Evans and Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo Press, 1973, pl. 250.
Jerry L. Thompson and Walker Evans, Walker Evans at Work, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, p. 127.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pl. 532, p. 165.
Jeff Rosenheim et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press, New York, 1999, p. 89.

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