Object number1973.22.27.12

Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the portfolio Walker Evans

Date1936

Artist Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print, printed 1971

EditionEdition 77 of 100

DimensionsImage: 9 1/4 x 7 1/8 in. (23.5 x 18.1 cm)
Mount: 18 x 14 3/4 in. (45.7 x 37.5 cm)
Matted: 22 x 16 in. (55.9 x 40.6 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, The Charles E. Merrill Trust Fund and Art Gallery Fund

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

SignedOn mount, lower right in pencil: Walker Evans

InscribedOn mount, lower left in pencil: XII 77/100 1936-1971

BibliographyAgee, James, and Walker Evans. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin company, 1941, n.p.; Evans, Walker. Walker Evans. Millerton, N.Y: Aperture, 1979, pg. 55; Mora, Gilles, and John T. Hill. Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1993, pp. 177, 202; Keller, Judith, Walker Evans, and J. Paul Getty Museum. Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection. Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995, cat. 532; Thompson, Jerry L. Truth and Photography: Notes on Looking and Photographing. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2003, n.p.; Chéroux, Clément, Svetlana Alpers, Anne Bertrand, David Campany, Julie Jones, and Walker Evans. Walker Evans. Paris, France: Centre Pompidou, 2017, pg. 148; Lombino, Mary-Kay, "Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, September 20 - December 15, 2019," (Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center), 2019, p. 16.

Vassar Exhibitions

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Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Exhibition HistoryThe Friends Focus: On Photography, Frances Lehman Loeb Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, December 7, 1989 - February 11, 1990;

Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 20 - December 15, 2019
DescriptionMounted to board. Portrait of a woman with her hair pulled back, standing in front of wooden siding. Her brow is slightly furrowed and the lines on her face give her a much older appearance.

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