Walker Evans
Four-faced Mask

Four-faced Mask

© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Four-faced Mask
Four-faced Mask
ArtistAmerican, 1903–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Four-faced Mask
Date1935
PlaceDemocratic Republic of the Congo, Africa
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage/Sheet: 9 × 7 1/4 in. (22.9 × 18.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1015
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceArtist's estate
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Walker Evans: Photographs of African Sculptures in The Manfred Heiting Collection," the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 22, 2003 - February 29, 2004
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Stamped in black, verso of sheet, lower left, with pencil insertions: "Walker Evans / XX / 418"
Inscribed in pencil, verso of sheet, lower left: "361"
Inscribed in pencil, verso of sheet, center: "418"
The photograph is not signed.

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