Photographs
Photographs
Property of a Private Collection, Atlanta
Minstrel Poster, Alabama
Lot Closed
April 13, 07:00 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Walker Evans
1903 - 1975
Minstrel Poster, Alabama
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, with typed title and F. S. A. credit and use stamps on the reverse, 1936
image: 9 ½ by 7 ½ in. (24.1 by 19.1 cm.)
Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration 1935-1938 (New York, 1973), pl. 379
Walker Evans: First and Last (New York, 1978), p. 70 (alternate cropping)
Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1981), p. 40
Walker Evans, American Photographs (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988 edition), Part One, pl. 34 (alternate cropping)
Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye (New York, 1993), pl. 89
Ellen Fleurov, Walker Evans, Simple Secrets: Photographs from the Collection of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1997), p. 99 and index (alternate cropping)
Peter Galassi, ed., Walker Evans and Company (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2000), p. 23 and pl. 200 (alternate cropping)
Maria Morris Hambourg, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Douglas Eklund, and Mia Fineman, Walker Evans (New York: The Metropolitan of Art, 2000), pl. 65 (alternate cropping)
Christian A. Peterson, Walker Evans: The Collection of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2003), p. 86
John T. Hill, Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary - Selections from Evans' Work for the U. S. Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1937 (Göttingen, 2006), p. 147 (alternate cropping)