Walker Evans
Lincoln Kirstein

Lincoln Kirstein

© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lincoln Kirstein
Lincoln Kirstein
ArtistAmerican, 1903–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Lincoln Kirstein
Date1929–1930
PlaceUnited States
MediumGelatin silver prints
DimensionsImage (left hand side): 6 11/16 × 4 5/8 in. (17 × 11.7 cm)
Image (right hand side): 5 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (14 × 9.5 cm)
Sheet (Both images are on one sheet): 8 × 9 7/8 in. (20.3 × 25.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Louisa Stude Sarofim
Object number85.87
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Lunn Ltd., Washington, DC]; purchased by MFAH, 1985.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Still Space and Time: Balanchine and Photography," MFA,H, May 29 to August 11, 1985
Exhibited: "Walker Evans," at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, from August 15 to October 14, 1990 (LN:90.25)
Exhibited: "Photographien im Dialog (A Dialog Between Photographs)," at August Sander Archiv, Cologne, Germany, May 23 to August 10, 1997 (LN:97.21)

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso top left in pencil " #5[reading vertically]\"
lower left edge " Lincoln Kirstein[reading vertically] "
verso identical stamps on the left and on the right " Walker Evans / [two rectangular boxes] " the stamp on the right has inscriptions in pencil in the boxes " IV 4 "

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