Untitled (African Mask, Liberia)

Walker Evans

1935

  • Titles Untitled (African Mask, Liberia) (Proper)
  • Artist Walker Evans, American, 1903 - 1975
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm) image: 9 5/8 × 7 5/8 in. (24.4 × 19.4 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.98.2020
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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