Portrait of James Agee

Walker Evans

1937; printed 1974

  • Titles Portrait of James Agee (Proper)@Walker Evans: Selected Photographs (Portfolio)
  • Artist Walker Evans, American, 1903 - 1975
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions image: 8 3/4 × 6 7/8 in. (22.2 × 17.5 cm) mount: 19 3/4 × 14 7/8 in. (50.2 × 37.8 cm) mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John Hagefstration, AFI.93.2020
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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