Bedroom, Tengle Family House, Hale County, Alabama, 1936

Details

WALKER EVANS (1903-1975)
Bedroom, Tengle Family House, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1962 by Rolf Petersen
credited, numbered 'RA-8152-1' and variously otherwise numbered in pencil (verso)
image: 13 3⁄4 x 10 3⁄4 in. (34.9 x 27.2 cm.)
sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.7 x 28 cm.)

Provenance

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962;
Walker Evans: An American Master, Christie's, New York, April 29, 2020, lot 20;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York, 1975, pl. 315.
Exhibition catalogue, Walker Evans, America, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 1990, pl. 97.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pl. 557, p. 171.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, p. 94, fig. 113.

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Lot Essay

This work was printed in conjunction with the exhibition The Bitter Years: 1935–1941 presented by The Museum of Modern Art in 1962.

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