Details

Title

Figure Surmounting a Calabash, Urua, Belgian Congo [Zaire]

Artist/Maker

Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)

Date

1935

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

10 x 7-7/8 inches 25.4 x 20.0 cm. (image & paper)

Credit

Gift of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill

Accession #

1997.128

On View

Currently not on view

Image Copyright

© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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