Photographer's Window Display, Birmingham, Alabama

Artist Walker Evans (American, 1903 - 1975)

Date1936; printed later

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 12 7/8 × 10 5/16 inches (32.7 × 26.19 cm)
Mount: 19 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (50.17 x 37.47 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.1360

SignedSigned on mount verso, lower right, in pencil: "Walker Evans"

InscribedEditioned on mount recto, lower left, in pencil: "A/P"

MarkingsOn mount verso, upper right, in pencil: "#7"; On mount verso, lower left, in pencil: "HG/432/8"; On mount verso, lower right, in pencil: "P5.016.015.81".

Edition/State/Proofed. AP

On View

Not on view

Collections

Photography

Terms

DescriptionComposite image of 225 individual portraits. Across upper third of frame is the word STUDIO.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Masters of 20th-Century Photography from the Hallmark Collection. Waterloo Municipal Galleries, Waterloo, IA, May 2 -June 13, 1982, no cat.

New Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 – May 1, 1983.

Faces: an Exhibition from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 16 - October 21, 1984, no. 43

Selections from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. Highland Community College, Highland, KS, October 19 – November 11, 1993, no cat.

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

Provenance

Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1981;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

Published References

Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker, (Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation in association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2012), 30 (repro.).

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