IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. ANTHONY TERRANA Walker Evans Interior Detail, West Virginia Coal Miner's House, July 1935 Gelatin silver print. 9 1/8 x 6 in. (23.2 x 15.2 cm) Titled 'Interior' and dated in ink on the verso.
Provenance The Museum of Modern Art, New York Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York Robert Klein Gallery, Boston Literature Da Capo Press, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration 1935-1938, pl. 15 Harper & Row, Walker Evans First and Last, p. 113 Keller, Walker Evans The Getty Museum Collection, pl. 426 Mora and Hill, Walker Evans The Hungry Eye, pl. 24 Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye, n.p. for a variant The Museum of Modern Art, Walker Evans American Photographs, pl. 23 Weski and Liesbrock,How You Look at It: Photographs of the 20th Century, p. 188 Catalogue Essay Another print of this image is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica. “When I first made photographs, they were too plain to be considered art and I wasn't considered an artist. I didn't get any attention at all. The people who looked at my work thought, well, that's just a snapshot of the backyard. Privately I knew otherwise and through stubbornness stayed with it.” WALKER EVANS Read More
IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. ANTHONY TERRANA Walker Evans Interior Detail, West Virginia Coal Miner's House, July 1935 Gelatin silver print. 9 1/8 x 6 in. (23.2 x 15.2 cm) Titled 'Interior' and dated in ink on the verso.
Provenance The Museum of Modern Art, New York Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York Robert Klein Gallery, Boston Literature Da Capo Press, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration 1935-1938, pl. 15 Harper & Row, Walker Evans First and Last, p. 113 Keller, Walker Evans The Getty Museum Collection, pl. 426 Mora and Hill, Walker Evans The Hungry Eye, pl. 24 Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye, n.p. for a variant The Museum of Modern Art, Walker Evans American Photographs, pl. 23 Weski and Liesbrock,How You Look at It: Photographs of the 20th Century, p. 188 Catalogue Essay Another print of this image is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica. “When I first made photographs, they were too plain to be considered art and I wasn't considered an artist. I didn't get any attention at all. The people who looked at my work thought, well, that's just a snapshot of the backyard. Privately I knew otherwise and through stubbornness stayed with it.” WALKER EVANS Read More
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