Breakfast Room, Belle Grove Plantation, White Chapel, Louisiana, 1935

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel Fund

Accession Number

1989.69.5

Artists / Makers

Walker Evans (artist) American, 1903 - 1975

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Inscription

on mount by unknown hand, across bottom in graphite: 34 7 5/8" 83.5; on mount by artist's hand?, lower left verso in graphite: MOMA II-76; on mount by artist's hand?, lower center verso in graphite: 4804/80; on mount by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 70.1328

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Lunn Limited

Exhibition History

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

Bibliography

1971: Szarkowski, John. Walker Evans. New York, 1971: p. 77.

1978: Walker Evans: First and Last. New York, 1978: p. 125.

1982: Thompson, Jerry L. Walker Evans at Work. New York, 1982: p. 110 (above right).

1991: Greenough 1991, pl. 17.