About the Artwork
Sharecropper's Family, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
1936
Walker Evans
1903-1975
American
Unknown
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 3/4 × 9 3/4 inches (19.7 × 24.8 cm) Sheet: 10 × 8 inches (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Arts Fund
F79.43
Restricted
Markings
Signed, in pencil, on overmat, lower right: Walker Evans.
In pencil, verso, center: Please return this print to; in pencil, verso, center: 2-19; in pencil, on verso, lower right: 4.
Stamped, in black ink, verso, center: WALKER EVANS / BOX 310 RTE. 3 / OLD LYME, CONN. 0637 / RIGHTS RESERVED; stamped in black ink, on verso, lower right: WALKER EVANS
Provenance
1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Barr, Nancy W. "The Legacy of Photographic Modernism in America: Edward Weston's 'Photographic Art' and Charles Sheeler's 'Wheels.'" Bulletin of the DIA 80, nos. 1/2 (2006): p. 47 (fig. 6).
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Walker Evans, Sharecropper's Family, Hale County, Alabama, 1936, 1936, gelatin silver print. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Arts Fund, F79.43.
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