Object number1987.2.27.3

Belle Grove Plantation, White Chapel, Louisiana

DateMarch 1935

Artist Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 7 7/8 x 9 13/16 in. (20 x 25 cm)
Matted: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Credit LineGift of Dorothy Seiberling Steinberg, class of 1943

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedOn verso, upper left in pencil [upside down and scribbled out]: 171; upper right [circled]: HH; lower right: WALKER EVANS PHOTO; [upside down and circled]: SS / G6; [underlined twice]: 82f; [scribbled out]: ss: lower right corner: 87.2.27.3; lower left corner [upside down and underlined]: 57p t[illegible] 47p / 57p t[illegible] 45p

BibliographyEvans, Walker. Walker Evans / With an Introduction by John Szarkowski. New York: Museum of Modern Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., 1971, pg. 61;Keller, Judith, Walker Evans, and J. Paul Getty Museum. Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection. Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995, cat. 462 (variant cropping) ProvenanceGift of Dorothy Seiberling Steinberg, class of 1943
DescriptionAn image of a two story Greek Revival plantation house with a few trees around the sides and a tree stump in the foreground

Terms

White Castle

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