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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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