Coal miner's house, Scott's Run, West Virginia

Artist Walker Evans (American, 1903 - 1975)

DateJuly 1935; printed later

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 7 9/16 × 9 1/2 inches (19.21 × 24.13 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 inches (20.32 × 25.24 cm)
Mount: 17 × 14 3/4 inches (43.18 × 37.47 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.1350

Signednone [signature on mat recto; no longer housed in original mat however]

Inscribednone

MarkingsOn mount verso, upper left corner, in pencil: "16-5-74".

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DescriptionPortrait of a young boy sitting on a chair in a sparse wood framed room. Two large pieces of wooden furniture in the center and right of frame. The wall on the right half of the frame is wallpapered in product advertisements.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.

Faces: an Exhibition from the Hallmark Photographic Collection. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 16 -October 21, 1984, no. 10.

Gallery Label

Walker Evans produced some of his best-known photographs while working for the Farm Security Administration during 1935 and 1936. Characterized by a dispassionate clarity, Evans’ photographs transformed the common subjects he encountered into moving emblems of human existence. As the poet William Carlos Williams wrote of Evans’ images: “It is ourselves that we see, ourselves lifted from a parochial setting. We see ourselves made worthy in our anonymity.”

Provenance

Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1974;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.

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