Details
WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Roadside Gas Sign, 1929
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1969 by Charles Rodemeyer
numbered 'P. 446' and annotated 'DUPE' in pencil (verso)
image: 5 x 7 in. (12.8 x 17.9 cm.)
sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.4 x 25.5 cm.)
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Literature
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 71.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 26.
James R. Mellow, Walker Evans, Basic Books, New York, 1999, p. 114.
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, fig 89, p. 94
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 22.
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