Walker Evans
Roadside Restaurant, Alabama

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Artist Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)American, 1903–1975

CultureAmerican

Titles

Roadside Restaurant, Alabama
Café, Alabama

Date1936, printed 1976

PlaceAlabama, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 1/8 × 13 3/8 in. (25.7 × 34 cm)
Sheet: 11 × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)

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

Object number76.391

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition HistoryLoaned to Manes Center of the Union of Czechoslovak Creative Artists, Progue, c/o U.S.I.A., Washington, D.C. for "The 150th Anniversary of the Invention of Photography: Prague 1989," from Aug. 1 to Sep. 30, 1989 (LN:89.10).

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso bottom right in pencil "Walker Evans"
bottom left in pencil reading vertically "53142¦392[underlined] / 8274A"

verso upper left a stamp reading vertically "Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress"

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