Walker Evans
Cuban Dock Workers

Cuban Dock Workers

© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cuban Dock Workers
Cuban Dock Workers
ArtistAmerican, 1903–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Cuban Dock Workers
Date1933
PlaceUnited States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 3/16 × 8 1/16 in. (15.7 × 20.5 cm)
Sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Joe Aker
Object number98.718
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceJoe C. Aker, Houston; given to MFAH, 1998.
Exhibition HistoryExcollection: Estate of Walker Evans
Excollection: Marlborough Gallery
Excollection Cronin Gallery, Houston
Excollection: Joe C. Aker

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
There is a label on the verso of the mat: "The Cronin Gallery / 2008 Peden Houston, Texas 77019 / Walker Evans / Gelatin silver photograph / Cuban Dock Workers, 1932". The mat is stamped, verso, lower right: "Walker Evans / 11 (in box) 54 (in box). The mat is inscribed, verso, lower right in pencil: "MOMA 54", and in the lower left in pencil: "#1483".
verso bottom left a stamp "Walker Evans" above two rectangular boxes inscribed in pencil "11", "54"

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