Debris

c. 1965

Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Robert B. Menschel Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 12.4 x 18.5 cm (4 7/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1989.72.8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lunn Limited, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1989.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • Walker Evans: Subway Portraits and Other Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 1991-1992.

2017

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

Bibliography

1991

  • Greenough 1991, pl. 59.

Inscriptions

lower right verso in graphite: Walker Evans; lower left verso: Evans estate stamp with inventory number XVII-9 added in graphite; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 1241; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: TRASH #2; by later hand, center right verso in graphite: Box 28; center verso stamped: WALKER EVANS / RIGHTS RESERVED / WALKER EVANS / BOX 310 RTE. 3 / OLD LYME. CONN. 06371

Wikidata ID

Q64169787

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