Lot Essay
This work was printed in conjunction with the exhibition Walker Evans presented by The Museum of Modern Art in 1971.
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Floyd Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
Details
WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Floyd Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
gelatin silver print, mounted on card, printed 1969–1970
printer's notations in pencil (mount, recto)
image/sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.5 x 20.4 cm.)
mount: 13 x 8 in. (33 x 20.3 cm.)
Floyd Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
gelatin silver print, mounted on card, printed 1969–1970
printer's notations in pencil (mount, recto)
image/sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.5 x 20.4 cm.)
mount: 13 x 8 in. (33 x 20.3 cm.)
Provenance
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, late 1980s–1990s.
acquired from the above by the present owner, late 1980s–1990s.
Literature
James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1941, pl. 2.
James Szarkowski, Walker Evans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971, p. 83.
Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York, 1975, pl. 249.
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 72.
Exhibition catalogue, Walker Evans, America, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 1990, pl. 80.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 202.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pl. 531, p. 164.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 88.
James Szarkowski, Walker Evans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971, p. 83.
Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York, 1975, pl. 249.
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 72.
Exhibition catalogue, Walker Evans, America, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 1990, pl. 80.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 202.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pl. 531, p. 164.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 88.
Exhibited
Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, An American Portrait: Photographs from the Collection of Diann and Thomas Mann, April 1–June 12, 1994, no. 28.