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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Penny Picture Display, Savannah by Walker Evans
    Walker Evans. Penny Picture Display, Savannah, 1936, printed c. 1962. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00006938

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    Penny Picture Display, Savannah

    by Walker Evans

    Provenance

    The Art Institute of Chicago’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

    Inscriptions

    No markings recto or verso

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "Master Photographers from the Permanent Collection," February 14-June 10, 1984. Art Institute of Chicago, "Hot Streaks," February 21-May 2, 2004. (David Travis). Rotterdam, Netherlands, Witte de With, "Walker Evans/Dan Graham," August 29–October 11, 1992; traveled to Marseille, France, Musee Cantini, November 6, 1992–January 10, 1993; Munster, Germany, Westfalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, February 14–March 28, 1993; and New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, December 17, 1993 -March 21, 1994. Art Institute of Chicago, "Photography on Display: Modern Treasures," May 9–September 13, 2009. Art Institute of Chicago, “In the Vernacular,” February 6–May 31, 2010. (Greg Harris) Art Institute of Chicago, "The Photographer's Curator: Hugh Edwards at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959-1970," May 24-October 29, 2017. (Elizabeth Siegel) Art Institute of Chicago, "Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s," September 21, 2019–January 19, 2020. (Galleries 1–4) (Elizabeth Siegel and Elizabeth McGoey)

    Publications

    Westerbeck, Colin and Joel Meyerowitz. 1994. "Bystander: A History of Street Photography." Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company. p. 279. fig. 14.6. (either this or 1983.1489)

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Walker Evans / American, 1903–1975
    Date
    1936, printed c. 1962
    Medium
    Gelatin silver print
    Dimensions
    Image/paper/first mount: 21.7 × 17.7 cm (8 9/16 × 7 in.); Second mount: 45.7 × 35.3 cm (18 × 13 15/16 in.)
    Type
    Photograph
    Classification
    gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Photography and Media
    Credit line
    Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. James Ward Thorne
    Accession no.
    1962.148

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    • Penny Picture Display, Savannah by Walker Evans

      Penny Picture Display, Savannah

      Walker Evans

      1936 · Photograph

      Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00025009

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