Walker Evans
Roadside Store, between Tuscaloosa and Greensboro, Alabama

ArtistAmerican, 1903–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Roadside Store, between Tuscaloosa and Greensboro, Alabama
Date1936, printed later
PlaceTuscaloosa (near), Alabama, United States
PlaceGreensboro (near), Alabama, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 5/8 × 9 9/16 in. (19.3 × 24.3 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm)
Mount: 11 1/2 × 13 in. (29.2 × 33 cm)
Credit LineThe Manfred Heiting Collection, funded by the Susan Vaughan Foundation and others in memory of Morgan Garwood
Object number2002.1025
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionWalker Evans’s images of poor tenant farmers and weather-beaten rural architecture in Hale County, Alabama, photographed in the summer of 1936 are, for many Americans, quintessential images of the Depression era.  Evans traveled through the South that summer with James Agee who had been commissioned to write an article for Fortune magazine—a collaborative venture that finally made it to the printed page five years later in book form as the American classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.  Evans’s documentary style, in which his humble subjects—whether human or architectural—spoke powerfully of a difficult but dignified life, have become a model for subsequent generations of photographers.
ProvenanceArtist estate, Lunn Gallery, Washington.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Galerie Rudolf Kicken GmbH, 4/26/1977.
Exhibition History"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.

“A Critical Eye: Mid-Century American Photographs from the Morgan Garwood Collection,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, July 23–November 2, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
in pencil, recto of mount, lower left, and circled in pencil: "56".
in pencil, recto of mount, lower center: "7 5/8"
in pencil, recto of mount, lower right: "Roadside Store between Tuscaloosa and Greensboro, / Alabama, 1936"
recto of mount cropping marks in pencil
verso of mount top right in pencil "70.1339"

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