WALKER EVANS (1903-1975) Bud Fields in his Cotton Field, Hale County, Alabama. Silver contact print, the image measuring 10x8 inches (25.4x20.3 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Evans' credit and negative date in Jack Welpott's hand, in pencil on verso. Summer 1936; printed circa 1950
The RA number for this print is 8148A.
Provenance: Collection of Jan Welpott Danielle, a gift from her father, photographer and educator, Jack Welpott (1923-2007). While studying photography with Henry Holmes Smith at Indiana University, Jack Welpott printed this photograph from the original Walker Evans negatives, which were on loan to Smith from the FSA Collection (housed in the Library of Congress, D.C.).
Reproduced: Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938 (New York: DaCapo Press, 1973), pl. 325
