General store, Selma, Alabama
Artist
Walker Evans
(American, 1903 - 1975)
DateJanuary 1936
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 3/8 × 9 1/8 inches (16.19 × 23.18 cm)
Mount: 16 15/16 × 13 15/16 inches (43.02 × 35.4 cm)
Mount: 16 15/16 × 13 15/16 inches (43.02 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.397
Signednone
InscribedOn mount verso, bottom, in pencil: "Country Store and Farm Station, Alabama 1936"
MarkingsStamp on mount verso, center, in black ink: "PERMANENT COLLECTION / PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT / MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, N.Y.";
On mount verso, lower right, in pencil: "16-20-94" , "305.63".
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of a wooden storefront with a covered porch. Multiple advertisements are posted. Three men are standing on the porch in the lower right corner of the frame.Exhibition HistoryTalbot M. Brewer and Walker Evans: A Family Affair. Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, June 22 – November 13, 1998, no cat.
Rotation 1. The Nelson Atkins Museum
of Art, Kansas City, MO. June 17 – October 25, 2007, 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.
In the summer of 1936, in Hale County, Alabama, Evans made many of his most memorable and influential photographs. His photographs of ordinary people and buildings take on an almost transcendent power. As the writer Lincoln Kirstein noted at the time: "He so details the effect of circumstances on familiar specimens that the single face, the single house, the single street, strikes with the force of overwhelming numbers, the terrible cumulative force of thousands of faces, houses and streets."
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1994;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
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Walker Evans
August 1936; printed later
2005.27.1351
Walker Evans
August 1936; printed later
2005.27.3959
