The Ford Motor Company Collection includes another version of this image, in which Evans cropped out the stairs at the right. The severely cropped print is more a portrait of the woman, and it allows the viewer leisure to take in the fullness of her presence. This print, however, retains the ambiguity of the moment when the uniformed man descended the stairs.
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Inscription: Stamped in ink and inscribed in pencil on print, verso LR: "Walker Evans // 1 [in a box] 46 [in a box]"; inscribed on print, verso LR: "6"; inscribed on paper label attached to print, verso UR: "I 19"; inscribed on print, verso LL [sideways]: "45 // W5 // 832";
[Harry Lunn to Waddell]; John C. Waddell
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Eklund, Doug, and Jeff L. Rosenheim. Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology. Zurich: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000. p. 134.
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Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)
ca. 1929
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