Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer Wife
Walker Evans
American, 1903–1975
Details
Title
Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer Wife
Artist/Maker
Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)
Date
1936, printed 1971
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
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Credit
Purchase with funds from a friend of the Museum
Accession #
74.82 L
Location
Currently not on view
This portrait was made by Walker Evans during the summer of 1936 when he and writer James Agee were on assignment for Fortune magazine. Their story on tenant farmers in the South was finally released as a book in 1941, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men". Critics of the time hailed the “naked realism” of Evans’ stark portrayals, which would become iconic representations of American farming communities stricken by poverty during the Great Depression.
