Battlefield Monument, Vicksburg, Mississippi

1936

Walker Evans

Associated Names
Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

The sculpture shows a man on a rearing horse with one front leg raised. The man has long hair and a beard, wears a long coat and boots, and holds a sword in his raised right arm while holding the reins with his left hand. The horse's head is turned slightly, and its mouth is open. The sculpture is made of a dark material resembling bronze, with a rectangular base featuring details like a sculpted wheel.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco); Mr. Murray H. Bring, Bethesda, MD; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1980; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • American Modern, Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain, October 31, 2008 - January 25, 2009.

2017

  • "Walker Evans", Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on verso, center bottom stamped in black ink: Walker Evans / [] []; by unknown hand, inside left stamped box in graphite: 1; inside right stamped box in graphite: 66; bottom left corner in graphite: #1657; bottom center in graphite: BOX 11

Wikidata ID

Q64170001

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