Walker Evans
Penny Picture Display, Savannah

ArtistAmerican, 1903–1975
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Penny Picture Display, Savannah
Date1936
PlaceSavannah, Georgia, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 3/8 × 7 5/8 in. (23.8 × 19.3 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 8 in. (25.3 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.972
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceArtist estate; Lunn Ltd., New York.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Lunn Ltd., New York, 4/14/1977.
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.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso bottom left corner in pencil "#357"
verso bottom right "4"


verso lower center a stamp "Walker Evans" above two rectangular boxes inscribed in pencil "I", "12"

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