Artist
Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975)American, 1903–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
- [Shell Detail]
Datec. 1930
PlaceUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 7/16 × 4 3/16 in. (16.4 × 10.7 cm)
Sheet: 6 7/16 × 4 3/16 in. (16.4 × 10.7 cm)
Sheet: 6 7/16 × 4 3/16 in. (16.4 × 10.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Efrem Kurtz
Object number2000.294
Non exposé
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Department
PhotographyObject Type
Walker Evans, who is best known for his studies of American vernacular scenes—roadside cafes, advertisements, shops, and main streets—used his characteristic sharp, straight photographic style in this series, a multi-dimensional study of one sea shell. The result of Evans’s stylistic approach, applied to a singular object rather than the architecture of a storefront, is a more ambiguous, intriguing, and abstract image.
Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso lower center a stamp "Walker Evans" above two rectangular boxes inscribed in pencil "XXI", "62" / "c.1930"
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