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WALKER EVANS (1903-1975)
Mayor's Office, Moundville, Alabama. Silver print, the image measuring 194x244 mm; 7⅝x9⅝ inches, the sheet slightly larger, 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), pl. 240
