Artist Walker Evans, American, 1903-1975
Title
  • Shoeshine Sign in Southern Town
Date 1936, printed 1974
Medium gelatin silver print
Dimensions Image: 7 9/16 × 8 13/16 inches (19.2 × 22.4 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Warren and Margot Coville
Accession Number 1998.99.5
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed, on mount, in pencil, lower right: Walker Evans
Inscriptions Inscribed, on mount, in pencil, lower left: 1/75
Inscribed, in pencil, lower right, verso: -5- WJC200
1980, Christie's East (New York, New York, USA).
until 1998, Warren and Margot Coville (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA);
1998-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)