Walker Evans
Joe's Auto Graveyard, Pennsylvania

Joe's Auto Graveyard, Pennsylvania

© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Joe's Auto Graveyard, Pennsylvania
Joe's Auto Graveyard, Pennsylvania
ArtistAmerican, 1903–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Joe's Auto Graveyard, Pennsylvania
Date1935
Place depictedPennsylvania, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 1/4 x 13 in. (21 x 33 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/4 x 13 in. (21 x 33 cm)
Mount: 18 x 14 3/4 in. (45.7 x 37.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Museum Collectors, by exchange; The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.965
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceArtist estate.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Lunn Ltd. on 4/11/1979.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in, "American Vision: Photographers from the East, Selections from the Manfred Heiting Collection purchased by the Brown Foundation for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from August 23-December 29, 2003.

"Ewan Gibbs: Arlington National Cemetery," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 10 February, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso of mount lower left in pencil "1-22", "#896"



bottom right below image in pencil "Walker Evans"
verso of mount lower left a stamp "Walker Evans" above two rectangular boxes with pencil inscriptions "I", "22"

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