Walker Evans
Graveyard, Houses and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

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Artist Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)American, 1903–1975

CultureAmerican

Titles

Graveyard, Houses and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Bethlehem graveyard and steel mill. Pennsylvania

DateNovember 1935, printed 1976

Place depictedBethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 7/16 × 13 1/16 in. (26.5 × 33.2 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/16 × 13 15/16 in. (28.1 × 35.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Alvin S. Romansky

Object number76.387

Non exposé

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC; purchased by MFAH, 1976.
Exhibition History"The 150th Anniversary of the Invention of Photography: Prague 1989," Manes Center of the Union of Czechoslovak Creative Artists, Progue, c/o U.S.I.A., Washington, D.C., August 1–September 30, 1989.

"Walker Evans and the City," Centre National De La Photographie, Paris, October 25–December 5, 1994.

"Ewan Gibbs: Arlington National Cemetery," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 11, 2012–February 10, 2013.

"Introducing America to Americans: Depression-era Photographs from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, Texas, June 10–September 9, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso bottom right in pencil "Walker Evans"
top right reading vertically "53142¦342[underlined] / 1167A"

verso right center a stamp reading vertically "Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress"

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