Provenance:
With Middendorf Gallery, Washington D.C.;
acquired from the above in 1991

William Christenberry was hailed as “one of the most respected and influential artists of the modern South,” by the Washington Post, whose photographs were by writer Walker Percy as the “poetic evocation of a haunted countryside.” 

Christenberry found inspiration in the derelict buildings, small towns and lush landscapes of his native state of Alabama. This work, and another in the sale, Church, Sprott, Alabama (lot 78) are both important examples of his highly personal vision.