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The Breakfast Room, Belle Grove Plantation, Louisiana

The Breakfast Room, Belle Grove Plantation, Louisiana, 1935

  • Walker Evans, American, 1903-1975

Gelatin silver print

  • Image: 7 1/8 × 9 1/4 inches (18.1 × 23.5 cm) Mount: 13 1/2 × 13 1/2 inches (34.3 × 34.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund

72.542

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Details

Signed, in pencil, lower right: Walker Evans

(Halsted Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA)

1972-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Walker Evans, The Breakfast Room, Belle Grove Plantation, Louisiana, 1935, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, 72.542.

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