Grit & Grace: Photographs from the Nelson Brothers Collection
Walker Evans
Crossroads Store, Sprott, Alabama
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Grit & Grace: Photographs from the Nelson Brothers Collection
Walker Evans
1903 - 1975
Crossroads Store, Sprott, Alabama
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, 8224-A 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 ½ by 9 ½ in. (19.1 by 24.1 cm.)
Executed in 1935, probably printed in the late 1930s or early 1940s.
Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Walker Evans, New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1971, dust jacket and pl. 84 (there titled Post Office, Sprott, Alabama, 1936)
Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, New York 1973, pl. 214
Jeff L. Rosenheim, Maria Morris Hambourg, Douglas Eklund, and Mia Fineman, Walker Evans, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2000, pl. 86 (there titled Post Office, Sprott, Alabama, 1936)
John Hill and Alan Trachtenberg, Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary, Selections from Evans' work for the U. S. Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1937, Washington, D. C. 2006, pp. 206-7
