Walker Evans
Bud Fields and His Family, Hale County, Alabama

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Artist Walker Evans American, 1903–1975

Printer Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

CultureAmerican

Titles

Bud Fields and His Family, Hale County, Alabama
Sharecropper Bud Fields and his family at home. Hale County, Alabama

Date1935, printed 1976

Place depictedAlabama, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 7/16 × 13 1/16 in. (26.5 × 33.2 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 7/8 in. (27.9 × 35.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky

Object number76.386

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"The 150th Anniversary of the Invention of Photography: Prague 1989," Manes Center of the Union of Czechoslovak Creative Artists, Progue, c/o U.S.I.A., Washington, D.C., August 1–September 30, 1989.

"Introducing America to Americans: Depression-era Photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, Texas, June 10–September 9, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso bottom right in pencil "Walker Evans"
top right in pencil reading vertically "53142¦342[underlined] / 8147"

verso right center reading vertically "Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress"

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