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Grit & Grace: Photographs from the Nelson Brothers Collection

Walker Evans

View of Railroad Station, Edwards, Mississippi

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6,000 - 9,000 USD

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Grit & Grace: Photographs from the Nelson Brothers Collection

Walker Evans

1903 - 1975


View of Railroad Station, Mississippi

ferrotyped gelatin silver print, 1295A in pencil, the photographer’s Farm Security Administration credit and return stamps, and with typed title and date on the reverse, framed, a Howard Greenberg Gallery label on the reverse

image: 7 ⅝ by 9 ½ in. (19.4 by 24.1 cm.)

Executed in 1936, probably printed in the late 1930s or early 1940s.

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, New York 1973, pl. 109

Roy Emerson Stryker and Nancy Wood, In This Proud Land: American 1935-1943 as Seen in the FSA Photographs, Greenwich 1973, p. 119

Jeff L. Rosenheim, Maria Morris Hambourg, Douglas Eklund, and Mia Fineman, Walker Evans, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2000, pl. 57