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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Frame Houses
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Frame Houses

Artist Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)
CultureAmerican
Date1936
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 6 3/4 × 9 3/8 in. (17.1 × 23.8 cm)
Overall, Paper: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 19 15/16 × 16 in. (50.6 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Fund
Object number84.78.121
Not on view
DescriptionThis is one of a series of 132 FSA photographs of Virginia; all are gelatin silver prints.

ProvenancePurchased prints from Library of Congress (negatives on file at Library of Congress,) 1984.Exhibition History"Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs," Large Changing Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, May 3 - June 16, 1985. Published ReferencesBrooks Johnson. _Mountaineers to Main Streets: The Old Dominion as seen through the Farm Security Administration Photographs_. The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA. 1985: p. 12.