Date
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Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, upper right, in graphite: "P-332"; verso, center, in graphite: "332"; verso, lower left, in graphite: "#998"; stamped and inscribed verso, lower right, in black ink and graphite: "Walker Evans [stamped] / 1 [inscribed in graphite/in stamped rectangle] 184 [inscribed in graphite/stamped in rectangle]
Dimensions
Image: 16.3 × 21.2 cm (6 7/16 × 8 3/8 in.); Paper: 20.3 × 25.3 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg
Reference Number
1991.1175
Extended information about this artwork
New York, New York, Museum of Modern Art, “American Photographs by Walker Evans,” September 28-October 31, 1938.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Walker Evans: Leaving Things as They Are,” September 12–November 8, 1987. (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s,” September 21, 2019–January 19, 2020. (Galleries 1–4) (Elizabeth Siegel and Elizabeth McGoey)
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