Walker Evans
New York

New York

© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York
New York
ArtistAmerican, 1903–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • New York
Date1934
PlaceNew York City, New York, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage/Sheet:5 3/16 × 7 3/4 in. (13.2 × 19.7 cm)
Mount: 8 × 8 1/2 in. (20.3 × 21.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1028
Not on view

Explore Further

Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceArtist estate; Lunn Ltd., Washington D. C.;

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Lunn Ltd., Washington D. C., on 6/27/1976.
Exhibition History"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.

"New York, New York: Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection", at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston from October 8 - March 9, 2003.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso lower left in pencil "#1265"

Signed in pencil, verso of mount, lower right: "Walker Evans 1934"
verso lower left a stamp "Walker Evans" above two rectangular boxes inscribed in pencil "XXI", "27"

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

cropped recto of sheet
Joel Peter Witkin
1984
Gelatin silver print
2012.630
Figure with Upraised Arms
Walker Evans
1935
Gelatin silver print
2002.987
Spirit Spouse, Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, Baulé Peoples
Walker Evans
1936
Gelatin silver print
2002.989
Nos âmes en des gestes lents (Our Souls, In Slow Movement)
Maurice Denis
c. 1892–1899
Lithograph in colors on wove paper
2001.481
Female figure from a drum ensemble
1900–1940
Wood, gold leaf, and paint
97.805
Vessel of a Caped Woman
100 BC–700 AD
Earthenware with slip
91.311
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Walker Evans
1931
Gelatin silver print
2002.971
Rebecca Salsbury James
Kurt W. Baasch
c. 1930
Gelatin silver print
2002.593
Four-faced Mask
Walker Evans
1935
Gelatin silver print
2002.1015
New York
William Klein
1955
Gelatin silver print
2002.1453