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ID: 700009494
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009494
Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1
[Floyd and Lucille Burroughs on Porch, Hale County, Alabama] (undetermined (information indicator); Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975); 1936; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 1999.237.4; )
Note: This portrait of father and daughter, themes of family traditions and agrarian issues.
Titles:
[Floyd and Lucille Burroughs on Porch, Hale County, Alabama] (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,P)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
undetermined (information indicator) [300379012] (preferred)
..... (Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), multidisciplinary concepts)

Classifications:
not applicable (preferred)

Creation Date: 1936

Creator Display:
Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975) [preferred]
photographer Evans, Walker (American photographer, 1903-1975) [500012076]
Locations:
Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: 1999.237.4
Credit Line: Purchase, Marlene Nathan Meyerson Family Foundation Gift, in memory of David Nathan Meyerson; and Pat and John Rosenwald and Lila Acheson Wallace Gifts, 1999
Display Materials: gelatin silver print
gelatin silver process [300139114]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <photography and photographic processes and techniques>, photographic processes)

Dimensions: 18.9 x 23.7 cm (7 7/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
General Subject:
portraits (preferred)
genre

Specific Subjects:
double portraits [300254374]
.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits, group portraits) (AAT)
Burroughs, Lucille (American farmer, sitter, 20th century) [500475848]
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
Burroughs, Floyd (American farmer, sitter, 20th century) [500475847]
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
Hale county [2000032]
.....(Alabama (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

Copyright: © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance: Walker Evans; John T. Hill, Bethany, Connecticut
Inscriptions: Signed and inscribed in pencil on mount, recto, bottom right: "Walker Evans"; bottom left: "Alabama, 1936"
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
Sources and Contributors:
[Floyd and Lucille Burroughs on Porch, Hale County, Alabama]........ [VP]
........ National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. [online] (2001-) accessed 2 July 2018
Subject: ....... [VP]
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 2 July 2018
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