Art Institute of Chicago
A Child's Grave, Hale County, Alabama
Walker Evans · 1936
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography,” May 7–July 30, 1989; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “The Concerned Photographer,” March 18–June 11, 2006. (Katherine Bussard, Newell G. Smith, Gregory Harris)
- Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 10 Permanent Collection Rotation, May 10–November 17, 2013.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s," September 21, 2019–January 19, 2020. (Galleries 1–4) (Elizabeth Siegel and Elizabeth McGoey)
Literature
Published references
- Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. 1989. “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography.” Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 327, cat. 279.
- Cheroux, Clement. 2017. “Walker Evans.” Exh. cat. Centre Pompidou/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. p. 156, pl. 2.
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