Grit & Grace: Photographs from the Nelson Brothers Collection
Walker Evans
View of Railroad Station, Edwards, Mississippi
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6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Grit & Grace: Photographs from the Nelson Brothers Collection
Walker Evans
1903 - 1975
View of Railroad Station, Mississippi
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, 1295A in pencil, the photographer’s Farm Security Administration credit and return stamps, and with typed title and date on the reverse, framed, a Howard Greenberg Gallery label on the reverse
image: 7 ⅝ by 9 ½ in. (19.4 by 24.1 cm.)
Executed in 1936, probably printed in the late 1930s or early 1940s.
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, New York 1973, pl. 109
Roy Emerson Stryker and Nancy Wood, In This Proud Land: American 1935-1943 as Seen in the FSA Photographs, Greenwich 1973, p. 119
Jeff L. Rosenheim, Maria Morris Hambourg, Douglas Eklund, and Mia Fineman, Walker Evans, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2000, pl. 57
