A black and white photograph featuring an African sculpture of a seated figure. The wooden sculpture has a longer torso and short legs folded below. The facial features are simple and the hair is signified with small indented textured details. The arms are slightly bent at the elbows extending away from the torso and beating a small drum.

Untitled (African Sculpture, Figure with Drum, Congo)

Walker Evans

1935

Titles Untitled (African Sculpture, Figure with Drum, Congo) (Proper)
Artist Walker Evans, American, 1903 - 1975
Medium gelatin silver print
Dimensions sheet: 9 7/8 × 7 5/16 in. (25.1 × 18.6 cm) image: 9 5/8 × 7 9/16 in. (24.4 × 19.2 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.99.2020
Work Type photograph
Classification Photographs