Wooden church, Beaufort, South Carolina

Artist Walker Evans (American, 1903 - 1975)

DateMarch 1936; printed later

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 8 1/4 × 7 7/16 inches (20.96 × 18.89 cm)

Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Object number2005.27.1354

SignedSigned on mat, lower right corner, in pencil [2017:no longer housed in original mat]; Stamp on sheet verso, center, in black ink: "PHOTOGRAPH BY WALKER EVANS / RIGHTS RESERVED - TRANSACTIONS / WILL PLEASE BE MADE IN WRITING"; Artist's stamp on sheet verso, center, in black ink: "WALKER EVANS / BOX 310 RTE. 3 / OLD LYME. CONN. 06371".

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MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper left, in pencil: "Portfolio V, fig."; On sheet verso, center, in pencil: "PLEASE RETURN THIS PRINT"; On sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "P5.016.009.74".

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DescriptionImage of a wooden church with a covered porch and worn paint. There is a window on wither side of the door, and one above it. A bench is on the left side of the porch. A few trees line the background of the image.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Spiritual Foundations: Photography of America's Sacred Structures Indiana University Art Museum, June 1 -July 17, 1994.

Talbot M. Brewer and Walker Evans: A Family Affair. Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, June 22 – November 13, 1998

This Land: Picturing a Changing America in the 1930s and 1940s. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, August 31, 2013 – January 6, 2014, 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

Purchased by 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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