Fireplace, Burrough's Bedroom, Hale County, Alabama

1936

Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    John Wilmerding Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 25.2 x 20.3 cm (9 15/16 x 8 in.)

  • Accession

    1989.69.9

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lunn Limited, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from John Wilmerding by NGA, 1989.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • Walker Evans: Subway Portraits and Other Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 1991-1992.

Bibliography

1978

  • Walker Evans: First and Last. New York, 1978: p. 78.

1991

  • Greenough 1991, pl. 14.

Inscriptions

across bottom verso in graphite: #818 Fireplace in Floyd Burrough's Bedroom / Hale County, Alabama 1936; lower right verso: Evans estate stamp with inventory number III-263 added in graphite; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: WE 2003 GI

Wikidata ID

Q64171789

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