Walker Evans 1903-1975

Willard Van Dyke

The Museum of Modern Art, New York (gift of the above, 1968)

Sotheby's New York, 22 and 23 October 2002, Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, Sale 7851, Lot 63

Acquired by the present collection from the above

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Walker Evans, January - April 1971

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Walker Evans: American Photographs, January - April 1989

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Walker Evans, June - September 2000, and thereafter at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000 - 2001

Maria Morris Hambourg, et al, Walker Evans (New York and Princeton: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton University Press, 2000), pl. 82 (this print)

Other prints of this image:

Walker Evans, American Photographs (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1938), Part One, pl. 6 (1988 edition)

Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2000), pl. 37

Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection (Malibu: The  J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995), 797

Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye (New York, 1993),  pp. 144 and 188

Walker Evans Photographs for the F. S. A. 1935-1938 (New York 1973), 170

Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1981), p. 42

Richard Lacayo and George Russell, Eyewitness: 150 Years of Photojournalism (New York, 1990), p. 99

The photographer and filmmaker Willard Van Dyke (1906 - 1986) operated the 683 Brockhurst Gallery in Oakland, California in 1930s, where he exhibited photographs by members of Group f.64 and other West Coast photographers.  From 1966 to 1972, he was director of The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film.  In 1968, Van Dyke gave the Museum a superb collection of photographs, including work by Evans, Edward Weston, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and others.  The Evans offered here is one of that group.