ID: 700009663 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009663	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Wooldridge Family Monument (gelatin silver photoprints; Walker Evans (American photographer 1903-1975); ca. 1945-1947; J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, Calif...; 84.XM.956.1079)

Note: Taken as part of Evans' work with the Farm Security Administration or FSA (1937-1946). Depicts the Wooldridge Family Monuments in Maplewood Cemetery, Graves County, Kentucky. These monuments were commissioned by local horse breeder Henry G. Wooldridge in a period from about 1890 to 1899 to serve as funerary ornaments for himself and his predeceased family. Evans extensively traveled throughout the American South during his time working with the FSA, photographing both Southern workers and the landscape.

Titles:

Wooldridge Family Monument (preferred,C,U,DE,English-P,U,U)

Wooldridge Family Monument, Maplewood Cemetery, Mayfield, Kentucky (C,U,D,RP,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

gelatin silver photoprints [300128695] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs), photographic prints, <photographic prints by process>)

Classifications:

photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: ca. 1945-1947

Creator Display:

Walker Evans (American photographer 1903-1975) [preferred]

photographer Evans, Walker (American photographer, 1903-1975) [500012076]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500115988] J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 84.XM.956.1079

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: print: H: 19.9 cm x W: 19.2 cm

Events:

exhibition: 2001 Los Angeles [7023900] (Los Angeles county (county), California (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet))

exhibition: 2003 Salem [7014447] (Essex county (county), Massachusetts (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet))

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

funerary (preferred)

sites

Specific Subjects:

	Mayfield [2040216]
	.....(Graves county (county), Kentucky (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

	cemetery [300266755]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Built Complexes and Districts (hierarchy name), complexes (buildings and sites), <complexes by function>) (AAT)

	sculpture, funerary [300184644]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, sculpture (visual works), <sculpture by function>) (AAT)

	Great Depression [901000748]
	.....((Global historical events, Named Events)) (ICON)

Copyright: © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Inscriptions: Crane mat, pencil, Crane inventory number: lower left, "L78.30(Evans)". Crane mat, pencil: lower right, "241". Recto, pencil: lower left, "125 / 9 1/2" [with a horizontal line next to inscription]. Recto, wet stamp, black ink: lower right, "Walker Evans". Verso, wet stamp, black ink: upper left, 8 cm "WALKER EVANS"; upper right, "COLLECTION / ARNOLD H. CRANE, CHICAGO, U.S.A.".

Related Works:

	depicts .... Wooldridge Monuments [700009664]
	..........funerary sculpture; Henry G. Wooldridge (American farmer and patron, 1822-1899); ca. 1890-1899; Mayfield (Graves, Kentucky, United States, North and Central...

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Wooldridge Family Monument	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Wooldridge Family Monument, Maplewood Cemetery, Mayfield, Kentucky	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-) accessed 25 February 2020

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-) accessed 25 February 2020

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-) accessed 25 February 2020
	..... NRHP (1950-) accessed 25 February 2020
	..... Ferris, Walker Evans, 1974 (2007) 48-9; accessed 25 February 2020