Walker Evans
Billboard, Birmingham, Alabama

Billboard, Birmingham, Alabama

© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Billboard, Birmingham, Alabama
Billboard, Birmingham, Alabama
ArtistAmerican, 1903–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Billboard, Birmingham, Alabama
Date1936
PlaceBirmingham, Alabama, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 9/16 × 9 5/8 in. (19.2 × 24.4 cm)
Sheet: 7 15/16 × 10 in. (20.2 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection
Object number91.581
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceAllan Chasanoff, New York; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Tradition and the Unpredictable: The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston;,January 16-March 27, 1994.

"Optical/Perceptual: Photographs from the Allan Chasanoff Collection," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, October 6, 2008–January 4, 2009.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso upper right corner in pencil " L 111 "
bottom right " 80 "

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