Joe's auto graveyard, near Easton, Pennsylvania

Artist Walker Evans (American, 1903 - 1975)

DateNovember 1935; printed later

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 4 9/16 × 6 11/16 inches (11.59 × 16.99 cm)
Mount (1): 4 9/16 × 6 11/16 inches (11.59 × 16.99 cm)
Mount (2): 18 × 14 3/4 inches (45.72 × 37.47 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.1348

SignedSigned on mount (2) recto, lower right, in pencil: "Walker Evans 1935"; Stamped on mount (2) verso, center, in black ink: "WALKER EVANS / RIGHTS RESERVED".

InscribedOn mount (2) verso, center, in pencil: "Joe's auto graveyard / Pennyslvania, 1935"

MarkingsOn mount (2) verso, center, in pencil: "16-1-72"

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DescriptionImage of an open field with many early modeled salvaged vehicles across the foreground of the frame. A few trees line the horizon line in the background of the frame.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

20th-Century Photographs from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, January 10 –February 22, 1981, no cat.

Twentieth-Century Photographers: Selections from the HPC. Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, 28 March-27 April 1996, no cat.

Talbot M. Brewer and Walker Evans: A Family Affair. Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, June 22 – November 13, 1998, no cat.

Dignity vs. Despair: Dorothea Lange and the Depression Era Photographers, 1933-1941. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 23 – November 26, 2017, no cat.

Provenance

Hallmark Cards, Inc., 1972;
Given by Hallmark Cards to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

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