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Main Street, Ossining, New York

Artist Walker Evans (American, 1903 - 1975)
Date1932; printed ca. 1970
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 7/16 × 9 13/16 inches (16.35 × 24.92 cm)
Mount: 14 3/4 × 19 3/4 inches (37.47 × 50.17 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1358
SignedSigned on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "Walker Evans"
InscribedOn mount recto, lower left, in pencil: "A/P"
MarkingsOn mount verso, bottom, in pencil: "16-13-81"; On mount verso, lower right, in pencil: "P5.016.013.81"
Edition/State/Proofed. AP
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionPortrait of man and a woman in an early model convertible automobile. The woman is wearing a white dress with ruffled collar and the man is wearing a light colored suit. A second blurred vehicle passes behind the couple.Provenance
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1981;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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