Evans, Walker
American (1903-1975)
Dow, James (later photographer/printer)
American (1942-)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: A Miner's Home, vicinity Morgantown, West Virginia
PUBLISHED TITLE: Coal Miner's House, Scott's Run, West Virginia, 1936

July 1935 / print ca. 1971 by James Dow from original negative
gelatin silver contact print
19.2 x 24.2 cm.
Gift of James Dow
GEH NEG: 45844
76:0191:0010

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Szarkowski, John. --Walker Evans.-- New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1971. p. 127.//
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. # 10.//
Evans, Walker. --First and Last.-- New York: Harper & Row, 1978. pl. 112.//
Brix, Michael, ed. & Mayer, Birgit, ed. --Walker Evans America.-- New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1991. pl. 32.//
Greenough, Sarah. --Walker Evans: Subways and Streets.-- Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1991. pl. 12.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 596.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY: "Through The Lens", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, June 22, 1996 -.//

INSCRIPTION: (no inscriptions)

NOTES: Catalogued 3/93, DZ. Title and date from --Walker Evans: Photographic Prints from the Farm Security Administration Collection...--. Alternate title from --Walker Evans--. Titled "Room in a miner's house, Scotts Run, WV. 1935" in --Walker Evans America--. Titled "Coal Miner's House, West Virginia, 1935" in --Walker Evans: First & Last--. Titled "Miner's Home, West Virginia, 1935" in --Walker Evans: Subways and Streets--. James Dow states that the prints were made on "Kodak Azo paper, processed in Amidol developer and selenium toned." Prints made by Dow can be readily identified "through the clip marks in the four corners as the prints were hung back to back by clothes pins and air dried." [Dow, 4/10/93]

SUBJECTS:
interior, bedroom
interior, figure in
artifact, advertising signs