Name: WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Brand: Wooden Gothic House near Nyack, New York, 1931
Price: 1800.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Wooden Gothic House near Nyack, New York, 1931
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1938
credited, titled and dated on affixed Museum of Modern Art 'American Photographs' press label dated 1962, also with an 'American Photographs' exhibition stamp dated 1938 and various Museum publicity stamps, annotations in pencil (verso)
image: 6 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (17.1 x 22.2 cm.)
sheet: 6 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (17.4 x 22.5 cm.)

Lincoln Kirstein, Walker Evans: American Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, part II, pl. 35.
Jerry L. Thompson, Walker Evans at Work, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, p. 52.
James R. Mellow, Walker Evans, Basic Books, New York, 1991, p. 215.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 57.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pl. 154, p. 44.

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The present lot is a print made for publicity related to the exhibition American Photographs presented by The Museum of Modern Art in 1938. Throughout the history of the Museum’s Photography Department, primarily from the 1930s through the 1970s, photographers contributing works to exhibitions would oftentimes provide the Museum with multiple prints of the works selected for exhibition. These additional prints would be used for various exhibition-related affairs, most often for being sent to the press for publicity. Such prints were sometimes provided by the photographer or printed at the Museum from original negatives.