Graveyard, Houses, and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Date:
November 1935, printed 1965/72
Artist:
Walker Evans
American, 1903–1975
About this artwork
Status
Currently Off View
Department
Artist
Title
Graveyard, Houses, and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Place
United States (Artist’s nationality:)
Date
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Medium
Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions
Inscribed recto, in negative, upper right, backwards, in white: “RA1167A”; inscribed verso, upper right, sideways, in graphite: “d [?]-58″; verso, lower left, in graphite: 9-87 / 573”; stamped and inscribed verso, lower center, in black ink and graphite: “Walker Evans [stamped black ink] / II [inscribed in graphite/in stamped tectangle] 142 [inscribed in graphite/in stamped rectangle]”; inscribed verso, lower right, in graphite: “Box 14”
Dimensions
Image: 19.1 × 24.1 cm (7 9/16 × 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.3 × 25.2 cm (8 × 9 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg
Reference Number
1991.1432
Extended information about this artwork
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, “Walker Evans: Leaving Things as They Are,” September 12–November 8, 1987. (David Travis)Art Institute of Chicago, “After the Crash: Picturing the United States 1930-1943,” October 21, 2000–January 28, 2001. (Mark Pascal and Kristin Nagel Merrill)(Gallery 1)Art Institute of Chicago, “Hot Streaks,” February 21–May 2, 2004. (David Travis)
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