Evans, Walker
American (1903-1975)

TITLE ON OBJECT: View of Morgantown, West Virginia, 1935
PUBLISHED TITLE: Miner's houses, Birmingham, Alabama, 1935

1935
gelatin silver print
18.5 x 23.2 cm.
Museum Collection, by exchange: ex-collection Roy Stryker
GEH NEG: 40730
73:0013:0041

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 20 / 890

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Maddox, Jerald C. --Walker Evans: Photographic Prints available from the Farm Security Administration Collection of the Library of Congress.-- New York: De Capo Press, 1973. # 2.//
Evans, Walker. --First and Last.-- New York: Harper & Row, 1978. pl. 106.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 594.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Acquisitions 1970-1973", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark, October 13, 1973 - January 30, 1974.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 25, 1991 - March 22, 1992.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the Collection (reinstallation)", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 18, 1993 - June 5, 1994.//
"Language of Light: Masterworks from the George Eastman House Collection", Japan, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, November 18, 1995 - January ??, 1996.//

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(in ink) "View of Morgantown, West Virginia 1935" (in pencil) "Walker Evans" mount verso-(in pencil) "R.Stryker" (in ink) "Roll A-5" (underlined) "Evans" "890" (rubber stamp) "20" (rubber stamp) "Roy Stryker

NOTES: Catalogued 11/90, MMC. Alternate title from --First and Last--.

SUBJECTS:
townscape, aerial perspective
artifact, telephone pole
architecture, buildings