Walker EvansAmerican, 1903–1975Forty-Second Street Elevated, New York
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Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1991.1173
In the catalog
Sources
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image: Art Institute of Chicago — © the artist or rights holder
Meanwhile, in the life of Walker Evans
The whole life1926
A year in Paris
Evans spends a year in Paris in 1926, then returns to the United States to join a literary and art crowd in New York City.
1927–1929
A Wall Street clerk and his New York friends
From 1927 to 1929 Evans is a clerk for a stockbroker firm on Wall Street; among his friends in New York's literary and art crowd are John Cheever, Hart Crane and Lincoln Kirstein.
1928
Taking up photography
In 1928, around the time he is living in Ossining, New York, Evans takes up photography; his influences include Eugène Atget and August Sander.
1930
Three photographs in Hart Crane's “The Bridge”
Three of Evans's photographs, of the Brooklyn Bridge, are published in Hart Crane's poetry book “The Bridge”.
