A black-and-white photograph portrays a white family with a sleeping toddler sitting in their cabin’s bedroom, looking forward.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A black-and-white photograph shows three white adults and a toddler facing forward in a rustic log cabin bedroom setting. On the left, a young woman is sitting on the edge of the bed, wearing a sleeveless dress with a diamond pattern apron, in bare feet and holding a sleeping toddler. On the right is a shirtless mustachioed man with a bandana hanging around his neck, sitting in a wooden chair with legs crossed and bare feet. Behind them in the center an older woman stands in front of an open door, wearing a long-sleeve top with a dirty apron, and leaning with her left hand on the rusty metal bedframe.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.287
People
Walker Evans, American (St. Louis, Mo., USA 1903 - 1975 New Haven, Conn., USA)
Title
Tenant Family, Hale County, Alabama
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1936
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Alabama
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/143642

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 18.8 x 22.2 cm (7 3/8 x 8 3/4 in.)
mount: 45.5 x 38 cm (17 15/16 x 14 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: recto of mount, below b.r. corner of image, in graphite: Walker Evans 1936

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Copyright
© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.287
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/05/2016 - 03/29/2017

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