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Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife (Allie Mae Burroughs)
Details
WALKER EVANS
Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife (Allie Mae Burroughs)
Gelatin silver print. 1936. Signed, titled Allie Mae, dated and inscribed in pencil on the mount.
9 1/8 x 7¼in. (23.2 x 18.3cm.)
Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife (Allie Mae Burroughs)
Gelatin silver print. 1936. Signed, titled Allie Mae, dated and inscribed in pencil on the mount.
9 1/8 x 7¼in. (23.2 x 18.3cm.)
Provenance
From the artist;
to the present owner.
to the present owner.
Literature
See: Agee and Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Thompson and Hill, Walker Evans at Work, p. 127; Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, fig. 531; Hambourg, Rosenheim, et al., Walker Evans, pl. 89; Harper & Row, Walker Evans: First and Last, p. 73; and Mora and Hill, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye, p. 177. See also: The Museum of Modern Art, American Photographs, part I, pl. 14; and Da Capo, Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, fig. 250, for a variant.