Interior Detail, West Virginia Coal Miner's House

1935

Walker Evans

Associated Names
Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

The image displays a vintage wooden rocking chair on a wooden floor, with vintage posters on the wall in the background. The color palette is grayscale. The chair is slightly to the right of center, and there are posters on the wall including one of Santa Claus and one showing graduation figures. A broom is leaning against the wall on the left side, and a person in a patterned dress is partially visible on the far left.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Walker Evans, New York; Murray H. Bring, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Robert Klein Gallery, Boston), 1982; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1980

  • Recent Acquisitions: Photographs, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, July 10–August 31, 1980

Inscriptions

on verso, lower left, Evans estate stamp; lower right, Evans estate stamp with graphite addition: 1 / 54; bottom left corner: 1304; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner: 1982.35

Wikidata ID

Q64172012

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