Posed Portraits, New York

1931

Walker Evans

Associated Names
Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

Two men are posing together on a set of wooden steps. The first man, on the left, is shown from the waist up leaning against the railing with his right arm, standing next to the other man. He has short, dark hair and is wearing a white cook's uniform with a paper hat. The second man, on the right, is leaning forward with one arm resting on the railing. He is wearing a dark shirt, a flat cap, and glasses. Both men have their arms around each other's shoulders and are looking at the camera. In the background, there is a menu board listing sandwich options and prices mounted on the wall, a round light fixture above them, and a doorway visible behind them. The setting is the entrance of a food establishment, captured in black and white.
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Artwork overview


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

1998

  • Developing Illusions, 1873-1998: Photographs from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, November 14, 1998–January 18, 1999

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, top right corner on white sticker in graphite: I 40; center: Manhattan Lunch Cart / 1932; lower right, Evans estate stamp with graphite addition: 1 / 88; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner: 1982.37

Wikidata ID

Q64171996

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