WALKER EVANS | WILLIAM EDWARD (BUD) FIELDS, A COTTON SHARECROPPER, HALE COUNTY, ALABAMA, SUMMER 1936

Private collection

By descent to the present owner

The annotation 'No Number Evans' on the reverse of this print provides fascinating insight into its early history. Three Evans photographs in the Getty collection are similarly annotated and, as Judith Keller discusses in Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection (1995), these photographs were likely loaned to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in consideration for Evans' 1938 exhibition American Photographs and its subsequent circulating iteration.  While some of the 100 prints exhibited at MoMA were also included in the pared down traveling exhibition, various eliminations and substitutions were made.