Walker Evans

Sotheby's, New York, 7 April 1995, lot 197

Collection of The Joy of Giving Something Foundation

Phillips, New York, The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation, 3 October 2017, lot 177

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Walker Evans: First and Last (New York, 1978), p. 52

John T. Hill, Walker Evans at Work (New York, 1982), p. 71

Peter Galassi, ed., Walker Evans and Company (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2000), p. 140 and pl. 157 

The Walker Evans photograph offered here was printed around 1941, in conjunction with The Museum of Modern Art's American Photographs at $10 exhibition and sale program.  According to the press release, the exhibition was 'an experiment to encourage the collecting of photographs for decoration and pleasure.' Nine photographers, including Ansel Adams, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, László Moholy-Nagy, Arnold Newman, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston, and Brett Weston, were asked to exhibit one photograph each. Each photographer's image was made available in an edition of 10 prints, to be sold to the public for $10 each.  It is believed that only 14 of the 90 prints were sold, including three to the Museum and two to patron David McAlpin (American Photography 1890 - 1965 from The Museum of Modern Art, p. 38).