Kitchen Wall in Bud Field's Home, Hale County, Alabama
Alternate TitleSilverware
Alternate TitleFields family cabin
Artist
Walker Evans
(American, 1903 - 1975)
DateAugust 1936; printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 9/16 × 9 1/2 inches (19.21 × 24.13 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 5/8 inches (20.32 × 24.45 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 5/8 inches (20.32 × 24.45 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3959
SignedArtist's stamp on sheet verso, lower right, in black ink: "WALKER EVANS";
[signed and dated on mat window recto - photograph no longer housed in original mat].
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn sheet verso, center, in pencil: "2-30" / "RA 8144A".
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of a well worn vertical wood panelled wall. From two horizontal slats hang various kitchen utensils including several pieces of silverware in the center of the frame.Exhibition HistoryNew Acquisitions to the
Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO,
April 1 – May 1, 1983.
Rotation 3. The
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 20 – August 18, 2008, no
cat.
Rotation 13. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 28, 2012 – January 6, 2013, 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.
Walker Evans is best known for his images of the Depression-era South, made with a large-format 8x10-inch camera. His art was personal but also unsentimental. This work is devoid of people, yet it evokes a sense of dignified human presence in the spare, ordered space of a tenant farmer’s kitchen. Evans made this photograph while he and writer James Agee were investigating the plight of Southern tenant farmers in rural Alabama, a project that culminated in their book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941).
Purchased from William Van Keppel by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1981;
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
2005.27.1351
