Walker Evans
Fetish with Calabash and Shells, Belgian Congo

Fetish with Calabash and Shells, Belgian Congo

© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fetish with Calabash and Shells, Belgian Congo
Fetish with Calabash and Shells, Belgian Congo
ArtistAmerican, 1903–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Fetish with Calabash and Shells, Belgian Congo
Date1935
PlaceDemocratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 5/8 × 7 1/2 in. (24.4 × 19 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Lynch Foundation, courtesy of Mary Kathryn Lynch Kurtz in honor of Efrem Kurtz
Object number96.567
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Sotheby's (New York), Paris]; purchased by MFAH, 1996.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The photograph has the artist stamp in black ink, verso: "Walker Evans" with two boxes with "XX" and "489" in pencil. Also in pencil verso: "383 489 15 HH 25".

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