Hudson Street Boarding House Detail, New York

1931

Walker Evans

Associated Names
Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

This is a photograph of an interior bedroom scene featuring an unmade bed. The room has plain plaster-textured walls and a wrought iron bedstead. The bed is unmade with pillows and a folded quilt with a patterned square in the center. The frame of the bed has a simple decorative design. The bed is positioned in a corner against the walls. There is a window above the head of the bed with drawn curtains. A wooden stool is below the window and to the side of the bed. The overall ambiance is simplistic with historical charm.
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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Clive S. Gray, Cambridge, MA; gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

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

Bibliography

1991

  • Greenough 1991, pl. 9.

  • Art for the Nation: Gifts in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991: p. 338.

Wikidata ID

Q64171860

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