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Kitchen Wall, Alabama Farmstead

Kitchen Wall, Alabama Farmstead, Walker Evans, 1936, printed 1974

Kitchen Wall, Alabama Farmstead

1936, printed 1974 · Photograph

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1936, printed 1974

19031975

Accession number: 1983.1490

Meanwhile, in the life of Walker Evans

June 1935
A miners' settlement and a staff post at the RA
In 1935 Evans spends two months on a fixed-term photographic campaign in West Virginia and Pennsylvania; in June he accepts a job from the U.S. Department of the Interior to photograph a government-built resettlement community of unemployed coal miners in West Virginia. He quickly parlays this temporary employment into a full-time position as an “information specialist” in the Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration) and from October 1935 on does photographic work for it, primarily in the Southern United States.
summer 1936
Hale County with James Agee, on assignment for Fortune
In the summer of 1936, while on leave from the FSA, Evans and the writer James Agee are sent by Fortune to Hale County, Alabama, for a story the magazine subsequently opts not to run.
1938
“Walker Evans: American Photographs” at MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art in New York holds “Walker Evans: American Photographs”, the museum's first exhibition devoted to the work of a single photographer; the catalogue includes an essay by Lincoln Kirstein, whom Evans befriended in his early days in New York.
1941
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” is published
Evans's photographs and Agee's text detailing the duo's stay with three white tenant families in southern Alabama during the Great Depression are published as the groundbreaking book “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”. Its detailed account of three farming families paints a deeply moving portrait of rural poverty.

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1965

Professor of photography at the Yale School of Art

In 1965 Evans becomes a professor of photography on the faculty for graphic design at the Yale University School of Art.

10 April 1975

Died

Walker Evans, portrait

Walker EvansAmerican, 1903–1975

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Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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In this state since: Aug 19, 2026
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Photographs Gelatin silver print Modernism 20th century United States

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African Sculpture, Walker Evans, 1935

African Sculpture

1935 · The Museum of Modern Art

Painted Sign on Fence, Cedar Point, Ohio, Walker Evans, 1930s

Painted Sign on Fence, Cedar Point, Ohio

1930s · Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Coney Island, New York, Walker Evans, 1928 or 1929

Coney Island, New York

1928 or 1929 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Manhattan, Walker Evans, c. 1928

Manhattan

c. 1928 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art

New York City, Walker Evans, 1928-1929

New York City

1928-1929 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Coney Island, New York, Walker Evans, 1928 or 1929

Coney Island, New York

1928 or 1929 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Untitled, Walker Evans, c. 1928

Untitled

c. 1928 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Walker Evans, c. 1928

Untitled

c. 1928 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

The Bedroom, Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Vincent van Gogh

The Bedroom, 1889

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, Georges Seurat, 1884–86, border added 1888–89

Georges Seurat

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884–86, border added 1888–89

Paris Street; Rainy Day, Gustave Caillebotte, 1877

Gustave Caillebotte

Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877

Two Sisters (On the Terrace), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881

The Basket of Apples, Paul Cézanne, c. 1893

Paul Cézanne

The Basket of Apples, c. 1893

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), Claude Monet, 1890–91

Claude Monet

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890–91

American Gothic, Grant Wood, 1930

Grant Wood

American Gothic, 1930

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, 1942

Edward Hopper

Nighthawks, 1942

Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer's Wife, Walker Evans, 1936, printed c. 1962

Walker Evans

Alabama Cotton Tenant Farmer's Wife, 1936, printed c. 1962

Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago

People Gathered in Windows Looking Down on Parade, July 6 Parade, Shanghai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1949

Henri Cartier-Bresson

People Gathered in Windows Looking Down on Parade, July 6 Parade, Shanghai, 1949

Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago

Woman Garment Worker, Lewis Wickes Hine, c. 1915

Lewis Wickes Hine

Woman Garment Worker, c. 1915

Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago

Child Labor on the Farm, Lewis Wickes Hine, 1930

Lewis Wickes Hine

Child Labor on the Farm, 1930

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled [from Circulation, October 12 #50], Takuma Nakahira, 1971, printed 2017

Takuma Nakahira

Untitled [from Circulation, October 12 #50], 1971, printed 2017

Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled [from Circulation, October 12 #79], Takuma Nakahira, 1971, printed 2017

Takuma Nakahira

Untitled [from Circulation, October 12 #79], 1971, printed 2017

Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago

Jannat, from the series "Notes from the Desert", Gauri Gill, 1999–2007

Gauri Gill

Jannat, from the series "Notes from the Desert", 1999–2007

Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago

Jannat, Gauri Gill, 1999–2007

Gauri Gill

Jannat, 1999–2007

Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago