Walker Evans
The Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge

© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge
ArtistAmerican, 1903–1975
ArtistAmerican, born 1953
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Brooklyn Bridge
Date1929, printed 1994
PlaceNew York City, New York, United States
MediumPhotogravure
DimensionsImage: 9 7/8 × 5 7/8 in. (25.1 × 14.9 cm)
Plate or block: 10 3/8 × 6 1/4 in. (26.4 × 15.9 cm)
Sheet: 16 7/8 × 13 15/16 in. (42.9 × 35.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Lynch Foundation, courtesy of Mrs. Efrem Kurtz
Object number94.794.1
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Zabriskie Gallery, Inc., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1994.
Exhibition History94.794.2 and 94.794.3 ONLY exhibited in "New York: Yesterday and Tomorrow," at the Shell and the American Landscape Museum, Houston, Texas, from May 8 to September 12, 2002 (OL.145, or previous number LN:2002.48).
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
bottom center below impression "6/100"
bottom center below image an intaglio impression "Photograph / © The Estate of Walker Evans / Gravure and Compilation / © The Eakins Press Foundation"

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