Tupelo, Mississippi

1936

Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Robert B. Menschel Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.3 x 24.3 cm (7 5/8 x 9 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1989.69.10

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lunn Limited, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds 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.

1996

  • Picturing the South: 1860 to the Present, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1996.

2017

  • "Walker Evans", Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1973

  • Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938. New York, 1973: no. 124.

1991

  • Greenough 1991, pl. 16.

1996

  • Picturing the South: 1860 to the Present. Atlanta, Georgia, 1996: p. 112.

Inscriptions

lower right verso: Evans estate stamp with inventory number III-124 added in graphite; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: #1324

Wikidata ID

Q64169945

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