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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
WALKER EVANS (1903-1975)
Fireplace and Objects in a Bedroom of Floyd Burrough's Home * Home of Floyd Burroughs, A Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama. Together, 2 silver prints, the images measuring 244x194 mm; 9⅝x7⅝ inches, and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, each with Evans' credit and negative date in pencil in Jack Welpott's hand on verso. 1936; printed circa 1950.
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), pls. 262 and 246
