(American, 1903-1975)

Coal Dock Worker, Havana, Cuba, from The Crime of Cuba, 1933, signed in pencil on mount lower right "Walker Evans", inscribed in pencil on mount lower left "Coal Dock Worker, Havana, 1932 (Crime of Cuba, Carleton Beals), Printed 1971 J.O.", gelatin silver contact print, 10 x 8 in.; matted, 20 x 16 in.; unframed

Provenance: Private Collection, Wisconsin

Note: A related image from The Crime of Cuba is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, accession Number: 2005.100.169.  According to the Museums website,  "...[The Crime of Cuba]  was an exposé by Carleton Beals of the conditions under which Cubans lived during the oppressive regime of Machado y Morales, a dictatorship covertly supported by the U. S. State Department. Evans neither read the book nor had any interest in its politics: "I simply went around everywhere I could get. I interviewed, and was helped by, Cuban revolutionaries as well as government officials."