About This Artwork

Walker Evans
American, 1903–1975

A Child's Grave, Hale County, Alabama, 1936

Gelatin silver print
8.3 x 23.1 cm
Restricted gift of Lucia Woods Lindley and Daniel A. Lindley, Jr., 1987.235

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography,” May 7–July 30, 1989; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990.

AIC, “The Concerned Photographer,” March 18–June 11, 2006. (Katherine Bussard, Newell G. Smith, Gregory Harris)

Publication History

Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. 1989. “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography.” Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 327, pl. 279.

Keller, Judith. 1995. "Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection." The J. Paul Getty Museum. p. 173. pl. 564.
(Other print of this image)