Walker Evans
New York City

New York City

© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York City
New York City
ArtistAmerican, 1903–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • New York City
Date1928–1929
PlaceNew York City, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 11 15/16 × 7 5/8 in. (30.4 × 19.3 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/16 × 7 11/16 in. (30.6 × 19.6 cm)
Credit LineThe Anthony G. Cronin Memorial Collection, museum purchase funded by various donors
Object number79.86
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionIn 1928 at the age of 25, Walker Evans taught himself to photograph, choosing New York City as his primary subject. Within a decade, Evans would become one of the premiere photographers in the US, best known for his Depression-era documentation of the rural South. Though it was produced early in his career, this print of two illuminated advertisements encapsulates Evans’s unique vision—a straight and stylish composition of converging lines, contrasting swathes of light and shadow, and dramatic perspective, all sharply focused and beautifully printed on gelatin silver paper.
Provenance[The Cronin Gallery, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1979.
Exhibition History"New York: Yesterday and Tomorrow," Shell and the American Landscape Museum, Houston, May 8–September 12, 2002.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top left corner in pencil " .59 "
verso lower right a stamp " Walker Evans / [two rectangular boxes] "

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