Walker Evans

Westchester, New York, Farmhouse
1931, printed 1971

Black and white photograph of a two-story vintage house with a leafless tree in the foreground and an old-fashioned car parked to the left side. The house has a chimney and several windows, and there's a small hill behind it. The image includes a signature at the bottom right and text at the bottom left indicating it is number 50 out of 100, with the years 1936-1971.

Black and white photograph of a two-story vintage house with a leafless tree in the foreground and an old-fashioned car parked to the left side. The house has a chimney and several windows, and there's a small hill behind it. The image includes a signature at the bottom right and text at the bottom left indicating it is number 50 out of 100, with the years 1936-1971.

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Date
1931, printed 1971

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Mount: 18 × 14 13/16in. (45.7 × 37.6 cm) Sheet: 4 3/4 × 6 11/16in. (12.1 × 17 cm) Image: 4 3/4 × 6 11/16in. (12.1 × 17 cm)

Accession number
2006.319

Edition
50/100

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Marcia Due and Jerry Thompson

Rights and reproductions
© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.

API
artworks/29498

Exhibitions

Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960

Apr 28, 2017–June 2, 2019

Walker Evans
20 works in the collection

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