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Sherrie Levine, Walker Evans, the Library of Congress, and others: The Burroughs Family (a collection)

September 7, 2024
- October 5, 2024

WORKS IN EXHIBITION

Exhibition View
Lucille Burroughs, Daughter of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama
1936
Silver gelatin print

1936, printed ca. 1970 by Library of Congress from the original negative
Image size: 7 3/8 x 9 1/4 inches (18.7 x 23.5 cm)
Paper size: 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Frame size: 12 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches (31.8 x 36.8 cm)
Verso: stamped in ink, “PHOTODUPLICATION SERVICE,” written in graphite, “LC-USF342-TO1-008140,” and “Walker Evans 1936”

History:
Stamped with Library of Congress Photoduplication Service stamp, verso, most likely circa 1970

(Inventory #36313)

Floyd Burroughs and Tengle Children, Hale County, Alabama
1936
Digital pigment print

1936, printed 2024 by Library of Congress from a scan of the original negative
Image size: 6 1/8 x 9 inches (15.6 x 22.9 cm)
Paper size: 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Frame size: 11 x 13 7/8 inches (27.9 x 35.2 cm)
Verso: nothing written

History:
Ordered from the Library of Congress in 2024

(Inventory #36385)

Untitled (Floyd Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama)
1936
Digital pigment print

1936, printed 2024 by Library of Congress from a scan of the original negative
Image size: 9 x 6 inches (22.9 x 15.2 cm)
Paper size: 10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Frame size: 13 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches (35.2 x 27.6 cm)
Verso: nothing written

History:
Ordered from the Library of Congress in 2024

(Inventory #36386)

Family and Home of Floyd Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama
1936
Silver gelatin print

1936, printed ca. 1940 by an unknown hand
Image size/paper size: 7 5/8 x 9 3/8 inches (19.4 x 23.8 cm)
Frame size: 12 1/2 x 14 3/8 inches (31.8 x 36.5 cm)
Verso: nothing written

Provenance:
Photo West Gallery, San Diego, California
Private Collection
Swann Galleries

(Inventory #36067)

Untitled (Kitchen in house of Floyd Burroughs, sharecropper, near Moundville, Hale County, Alabama)
1936
Digital pigment print

1936, printed 2024 by Library of Congress from a scan of the original negative
Image size: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm)
Paper size: 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Frame size: 10 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches (27.6 x 35.2 cm)
Verso: nothing written

History:
Ordered from the Library of Congress in 2024

(Inventory #36382)

Allie Mae Burroughs, wife of cotton sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama
1936
Digital pigment print

1936, printed 2024 by Library of Congress from a scan of the original negative
Image size: 9 x 7 inches (22.9 x 17.8 cm)
Paper size: 10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Frame size: 13 3/4 x 12 inches (34.9 x 30.5 cm)
Verso: nothing written

History:
Ordered from the Library of Congress in 2024

(Inventory #36387)

Exhibition View
After Walker Evans: 1
1990
Silver gelatin print

Image size: 9 x 13 1/2 inches (22.9 x 34.3 cm)
Paper size: 16 5/8 x 20 1/2 inches (42.2 x 52.1 cm)
Frame size: 17 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches (43.8 x 48.9 cm)
Verso: stamped in ink, “11,” and “2,” and written in graphite, “2”
(Inventory #36587)

Provenance:
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne
Sotheby’s, London
The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Sotheby’s, New York

History:
Negative is from 1981, this print is from 1990

Reproduced:
Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York 2016, pp. 114, 221, illustrated
Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York 2021, pp. 213 and 416, illustrated
Johanna Burton and Elisabeth Sussman, Sherrie Levine: Mayhem, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art 2011, p. 44
Sherrie Levine, New York and London 2007, p. 4, illustrated

Fireplace and Objects in a Bedroom of Floyd Burroughs’ Home
1936
Silver gelatin print

1936, printed ca. 1950 by Jack Welpott from the original negative
Image size: 9 5/8 x 7 5/8 inches (24.4 x 19.4 cm)
Paper size: 10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Frame size: 14 x 12 5/8 inches (35.6 x 32.1 cm)
Verso: written in graphite, “Walker Evans – 1936,” “25,” “#1 paper,” and “1-2”

Provenance:
Jack Welpott
Gift to Jan Welpott Danielle

History:
While studying photography with Henry Holmes Smith at Indiana University, Jack Welpott printed this photograph from the original Walker Evans negatives, which were on loan to Smith from the FSA Collection (housed in the Library of Congress, D.C.).

(Inventory #36379)

Home of Floyd Burroughs, A Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama
1936
Silver gelatin print

1936, printed ca. 1950 by Jack Welpott from the original negative
Image size: 7 5/8 x 9 5/8 inches (19.4 x 24.4 cm)
Paper size: 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Frame size: 12 5/8 x 14 5/8 inches (32.1 x 37.1 cm)
Verso: written in graphite, “Walker Evans – 1936,” “4,”” “1-2,” and “70””

Provenance:
Jack Welpott
Gift to Jan Welpott Danielle

History:
While studying photography with Henry Holmes Smith at Indiana University, Jack Welpott printed this photograph from the original Walker Evans negatives, which were on loan to Smith from the FSA Collection (housed in the Library of Congress, D.C.).

(Inventory #36378)

Untitled (Home of Floyd Burroughs, A Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama)
1936
Digital pigment print

1936, printed 2024 by Library of Congress from a scan of the original negative
Image size: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm)
Paper size: 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Frame size: 10 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches (27.6 x 35.2 cm)
Verso: nothing written

History:
Ordered from the Library of Congress in 2024

(Inventory #36383)

Washstand in the Dog Run and Kitchen of Floyd Burroughs’ Cabin, Hale County, Alabama
1936
Silver gelatin print

1936, printed ca. 1970 by Library of Congress from the original negative
Image size: 9 7/16 x 6 9/16 inches (24 x 16.7 cm)
Paper size: 10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm)
Frame size: 14 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches (36.2 x 29.2 cm)
Verso: stamped in ink, “PHOTODUPLICATION SERVICE,” written in graphite, “LC-USF342-008133,” and “Walker Evans 1936”

History:
Stamped with Library of Congress Photoduplication Service stamp, verso, most likely circa 1970

(Inventory #36314)

Burroughs Family, Hale County, Alabama
1936
Silver gelatin print

1936, printed later by an unknown hand
Image size: 7 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches (18.7 x 23.8 cm)
Paper size: 11 7/8 x 11 3/8 inches (30.2 x 28.9 cm)
Frame size: 13 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (34.3 x 39.4 cm)
Verso: nothing written

Provenance:
Estate of Walker Evans, New Haven
Frances Lindley, New York
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston

(Inventory #36642)

Charles Burroughs and Floyd Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama
1936
Digital pigment print

1936, printed 2024 by Library of Congress from a scan of the original negative
Image size: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm)
Paper size: 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
Frame size: 10 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches (27.6 x 35.2 cm)
Verso: nothing written

History:
Ordered from the Library of Congress in 2024

(Inventory #36388)

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