Fireplace, tenant farmhouse, Hale County, Alabama

Alternate TitleBedroom, Burroughs family cabin, Hale County, Alabama

Artist Walker Evans (American, 1903 - 1975)

DateAugust 1936; printed later

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 5/8 × 7 1/2 inches (24.45 × 19.05 cm)
Sheet: 10 × 7 15/16 inches (25.4 × 20.16 cm)
Mount: 13 × 11 1/2 inches (33.02 × 29.21 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.1351

SignedSigned on window mat recto, lower right, in pencil: "Walker Evans"

InscribedOn mat verso, upper right, in pencil: "Fireplace, Tenant Farmhouse, Hale County, Ala. 1936"

MarkingsOn sheet recto, upper right, in negative, reversed: "RA-8135-A"; On mount recto, crop markings, in pencil: "41 [circled] / 7 5/8" / 80.25"; On mount verso, upper right, in pencil: "70.1345"; On mount verso, lower right, in pencil: "P5.016.006.74"; On mat verso, upper right, in pencil: "16-6-74"; On mat verso, bottom, in pencil: "4804/63", "70-1345".

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DescriptionImage of a wooden table in front of a fireplace on a shiplapped wall. A pair of shoes sit on the lower tier of the table. A calendar, and other various items are hung on the wall around the fireplace. A painted handprint is on the wall near the right corner of the fireplace mantel.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

20th-Century Photographs from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, January 10 –February 22, 1981, no cat.

Talbot M. Brewer and Walker Evans: A Family Affair, College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, June 22 – November 13, 1998, 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.

Provenance

Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1974;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

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