SignedArtist's stamp on mount verso, upper left, in black ink: "WALKER EVANS / 1681 YORK AVE. / NEW YORK 28, N.Y.";
Artist's stamps on mount verso, center, in black ink: "WALKER EVANS" / "WALKER EVANS / 163 EAST 94TH STREET / NEW YORK 28, N.Y.";
Artist's stamps on mount verso, bottom, in black ink: "WALKER EVANS / 1681 YORK AVE. / NEW YORK 28, N.Y.".
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn mount verso, upper right, in red pen: "$100.- / T.I.";
Stamp on mount verso, lower right, in black ink: "RIGHTS RESERVED";
On mount verso, bottom, in pencil: "AP I-1".
DescriptionImage of a small two story building with multiple advertisements for a photo studio painted on the sides. A staircase to the second floor of the building runs from the lower left corner to the upper right corner of the frame.Exhibition History
Walker Evans: American
Photographs. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. September 28 – November
18, 1938, no cat.
Talbot M. Brewer
and Walker Evans: A Family Affair. Middlebury College Museum of Art,
Middlebury, VT, June 22 – November 13, 1998
Walker Evans. The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.February 1 – May 14, 2000; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, CA, June 2 – September 12, 2000; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston,
December 17, 2000 – March 11, 2001, no. 43 cat.
Rotation 2. The
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. October 24, 2007 – March 19, 2008,
no cat.
Gallery Label
Evans’s documentary-style photographs of the 1930s focused on everyday subjects, presented with detailed clarity and artistic neutrality. His goal was to present subjects as they stood, without passing judgement. In this image, Evans calls attention to the ubiquity of photography in American society, as advertised on the outside of this modest photo studio.
Provenance
With Danziger Gallery, New York, NY by 1997; Purchased from Danziger Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1997; Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc., to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Published References
Deborah Emont Scott, Marc F. Wilson, and the Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art. The Nelson-Atkins Museum
of Art: a Handbook of the Collection. 7th ed. Kansas City, MO:
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008, 195 (repro.).
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