Walker Evans
Minstrel Showbill, Alabama

ArtistAmerican, 1903–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Minstrel Showbill, Alabama
Date1935
PlaceAlabama, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage/Sheet: 9 5/16 × 7 1/16 in. (23.6 × 17.9 cm)
Mount: 18 × 15 in. (45.7 × 38.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.969
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceRobert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York; Sotheby's, New York, 5/1984.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Sotheby's, New York, on 5/7/1980.
Exhibition History"The Graham Nash Collection, De Saisset Art Gallery and Museum, University of Santa Clara, 1978.

"American Vision: Photographers from the East, Selections from the Manfred Heiting Collection purchased by the Brown Foundation for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from August 23-December 29, 2003.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
There is a label affixed to the verso of the mount, upper center: "ROBERT SCHOELKOPF GALLERY / Artist: Walker Evans / Title: Minstrel Showbill, '35 / Medium: photograph / Size: 9 1/4 x 7"


bottom right below image in pencil "Walker Evans 1935"

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