Interior Detail of a Portuguese House

1930

Walker Evans

Associated Names
Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

This image shows a large potted plant on a small cabinet with a lace cloth. Behind the plant is a collection of framed photographs and an American flag. The color palette is primarily grayscale due to the black-and-white nature of the photograph, with contrasting dark and light tones. The plant sits centrally on the cabinet, positioned slightly to the left. A wall with two framed pictures and a hanging portrait is visible behind the plant, with an adjacent door to the right. In front of the door, there's a small side table with a pot containing a plant and a stack of books underneath. The foreground features a patterned floor.
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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, by unknown hand, top right corner in graphite reversed: #1667; upper center, Evans estate stamp reversed with graphite addition: 1 / 84; bottom left corner: 1667; bottom center: Box 12; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner: 1982.36

Wikidata ID

Q64170004

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