Untitled (U.S. Rubber Sign, Manhattan)
Artist/Culture
Walker Evans
(American, 1903–1975)
Date1928-1929, printed later
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensionsimage: 27.8 × 18.5 cm (10 15/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Terms
Object number1969.18
Descriptiontrimmed at edgeLabel TextThis is an early Walker Evans photograph of an electric sign, taken from the roof of the U.S. Rubber Company at the corner of Broadway an d57th Street in New York. In the late 1920s, Evans, who rejected both Stieglitz's artistic viewpoint and Steichen's commercialism, endeavored at the beginning of his career to make unsentimental photographs of American life. Evans, born in St. Louis and educated on the East Coast at the Loomis School, Phillips Academy, and Williams College, took up photography in 1928 after a sojourn in Paris where he audited literature courses at the Sorbonne. Evans worked for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in the 1930s and for "Fortune" from 1945 to 1965. As a professor at Yale University, he exerted strong influence on the photogrpahic scene during the last ten years of his life.ProvenancePurchase from Peter Pollack, NY, New York
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