Object number2023.13.2

Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama

Date1936

Artist Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)

Printer John T. Hill (American, born 1934)

CultureAmerican

MediumArchival pigment print, printed 2022

DimensionsImage: 12 x 9 1/4 in. (30.5 x 23.5 cm)
Sheet: 13 x 15 in. (33 x 38.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of John T. Hill, in memory of Frances Strunksy, class of 1930

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedOn recto, by printer, lower right in margin in ink: print, John T. Hill. 2022

DescriptionPortrait of a woman from the chest up with her hair pulled back, standing in front of wooden siding. The lines on her face give her a much older appearance.

Terms

female

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