Walker Evans

mounted, signed and dated by the photographer on the mount, matted, framed, 1936

Variant croppings of this image:

James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Boston, 1988), unpaginated

Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye (New York, 1993), p. 207

John T. Hill, Walker Evans at Work (New York, 1982), p. 133

Jeff Rosenheim, Maria Morris Hambourg, Douglas Eklund, and Mia Fineman, Walker Evans (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 104

This early print, on single-weight, semi-glossy paper, is in generally very good condition. As is typical of early prints by Evans, the print's tones are slightly warm. At the top left corner, there are two small chips that have been inpainted. In raking light, small deposits of the photographer's original retouching, and a few minor hairline indentations, are visible. The photograph is mounted on a buff board that has a few handling marks and faint soiling on the front and back. The area surrounding the print has lightened slightly. On the reverse, the top edge of the mount has three areas where the top ply has been abraded.
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