African Sculpture

Walker Evans · 1935

You're looking at African Sculpture — a photograph by Walker Evans, nineteen thirty-five. It's gelatin silver print, about 46 by 20 centimeters. Evans was part of the social realism movement.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 18 5/16 × 7 3/4" (46.5 × 19.7 cm) · Credit Transferred from The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York

Hanging beside it in Gallery 520: Coupling (plate, page 17) from Corps perdu, Grand Jazz Band (New Orleans)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Nurse Supervisor, The Devil with Claws, Tiari, The Back (II), The Back (III), Shadow Self-Portrait, Washington, D.C.