Main Street, Greensboro, Alabama

Photography and Media

Summer 1936, printed later

Walker Evans
American, 1903–1975

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Walker Evans
Title: Main Street, Greensboro, Alabama
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1936
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Umarked recto; inscribed verso, center, upside-down, diagonaly, in graphite: "236"; verso, right center, sideways, in graphite: "#34"; stamped and inscribed verso, lower left, in black ink and graphite: "Walker Evans / I [inscribed in graphite/in stamped rectangle] 60v [inscribed in graphite/in stamped rectangle] / 5-34 / Box 11 [inscribed in graphite]"
Dimensions: Image: 19.4 × 24.3 cm (7 11/16 × 9 5/8 in.); Paper: 20.4 × 25.3 cm (8 1/16 × 10 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg
Reference Number: 1991.1443

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)

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