A Child's Grave (Hale County, Alabama)
| Artist | Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975) |
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| Title | A Child's Grave (Hale County, Alabama) |
| Date | 1936 |
| Medium | Gelatin silver print |
| Dimensions | Image: 7 3/4 × 9 1/2 in. (19.7 × 24.1 cm) Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm) Mount: 16 × 19 15/16 in. (40.6 × 50.6 cm) |
| Credit Line | Henry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 79.200.X.12.5 |
| This artwork is currently off display. You may be able to see this artwork by filling out an art viewing room request. | |
A horizontal black-and-white photograph depicts a side view of a new grave piled with dirt. A diamond-shaped stone headstone rests at one end of the grave; empty bottles and jars are sat around the grave.
Cemeteries provided documentary photographers of the Depression-era the opportunity to show the ultimate effects of poverty on the country’s poorest children and to demonstrate regional funerary practices. Modernist photographer Edward Weston was attracted by the monument’s weathered tones and textures and the memento mori of the dead flowers.
| Publisher | Farm Security Administration |
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"A Child's Grave (Hale County, Alabama) | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=79.200.X.12.5