Abandoned Store. GA 99, Ridgeville, Georgia
Former TitleAbandoned Store near Seacoast Village, Ridgeville, GA
Artist
Jim Dow
(American, born 1942)
Date1967
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 3 3/4 × 4 3/4 inches (9.53 × 12.07 cm)
Sheet: 4 15/16 × 6 1/8 inches (12.52 × 15.57 cm)
Sheet: 4 15/16 × 6 1/8 inches (12.52 × 15.57 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2018.51.4
SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil.
InscribedTitled, dated, and editioned on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "ABANDONED STOREFRONT, GA99, RIDGEVILLE, GA, 1967 #1/25"
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 1/25
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of a storefront with weathered siding and soda signs mounted on the facade. A wooden bench beside the stairs holds a tray of glass bottles.Gallery LabelThis view of an abandoned store in Ridgeville, Georgia, its façade plastered with advertisements for Hires root beer, 7 Up, Dixi Cola, and Coca-Cola, was directly inspired by Walker Evans’s photographs of the 1930s. When Dow was working from Evans’s negatives to prepare for the artist’s 1971 MoMA retrospective, he made a print of Evans’s image of a roadside store in Alabama, which is now part of his personal collection.
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2018;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
Copyright© Jim Dow
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