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Louisiana Plantation House

Artist Walker Evans (American, 1903 - 1975)
Date1935; printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 9 1/2 inches (19.05 × 24.13 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 7/8 inches (20.32 × 25.08 cm)
Mat: 18 × 15 inches (45.72 × 38.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1357
SignedSigned on window mat, lower right, in pencil: "Walker Evans"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
On View
Not on view
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DescriptionA large, pillared plantation style home in disrepair in background of frame. In foreground is an uprooted tree trunk with a few sparse branches.Provenance
Purchased by  Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1974; 
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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