Artist
Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)American, 1903–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama
Date1936
PlaceAlabama, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in. (24.1 × 19.2 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 8 in. (25.2 × 20.3 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 8 in. (25.2 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.954
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
Bought by Manfred Heiting from Lunn Ltd. on 12/3/1978.
Exhibition History"Walker Evans: An Alabama Record", J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1992; "Colección Ordóñez-Falcón de Fotografía", IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, 1996.
"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.
"Portraits from the Manfred Heiting Collection", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lower Brown Corridor, February 28, 2005-May 2, 2005.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso center[upside down] "212"
verso bottom left "#868"
verso bottom left "#868"
verso a stamp "Walker Evans" above two rectangular boxes inscribed in pencil "I", "36"
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