Sharecropper's family, Hale County, Alabama
Alternate TitleFields family
Artist
Walker Evans
(American, 1903 - 1975)
DateAugust 1936; printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 11/16 × 9 5/8 inches (19.53 × 24.45 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 inches (20.32 × 25.24 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 inches (20.32 × 25.24 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1349
Signednone
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionPortrait of a family group. Six people, including three children, are in a sparse room of a wooden framed house. They are dirty, and wearing well-worn clothes. Only the oldest woman wears shoes.Exhibition HistoryFaces: an Exhibition from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 16 -October 21, 1984, no. 13.
Rotation 18. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 17, 2014 – May 3, 2015, no cat.
Dignity vs. Despair: Dorothea Lange and the Depression Era Photographers, 1933-1941, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 23 – November 26, 2017, no cat.
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1972;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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Walker Evans
August 1936; printed later
2005.27.3959
Walker Evans
August 1936; printed later
2005.27.1351
