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Lucille Burroughs, Daughter of a Cotton Sharecropper

Walker Evans

Artwork Details

Lucille Burroughs, Daughter of a Cotton Sharecropper
1936, printed 1990
Walker Evans
gelatin silver print on paper
8 in x 10 in (20.32 cm x 25.4 cm)
Gift from the Collection of David S. Rosen MD, MPH
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division Reproduction #(318117 ICUSF34-110043)
2013/2.129

Description

Subject Matter:

Unassuming on all accounts, this portrait of a girl depicts her plainly dressed in white, standing with her back against a wall of wooden planks. She wears a straw hat, whose wide brim frames her face. She gazes directly at the camera.

Physical Description:

The photograph is a portrait of a girl in a straw hat standing in front of a wooden fence.

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