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A freshly covered grave mound surrounded by small markers and jars in a bare sandy area.

Photographs

Child's Grave, Hale County, Alabama

Walker Evans

1936, printed 1971

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm) Image: 7 11/16 × 9 11/16 in. (19.5 × 24.6 cm)
Accession number
2023.174
Acquired
2023
Credit line
Gift of Marcia L. Due and Jerry L. Thompson in memory of Norman Ives
Department
collection

About this work

Walker Evans, Child's Grave, Hale County, Alabama, 1936, printed 1971. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm) Image: 7 11/16 × 9 11/16 in. (19.5 × 24.6 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Marcia L. Due and Jerry L. Thompson in memory of Norman Ives 2023.174

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