Moving Truck and Bureau Mirror, Walker Evans, 1929
Walker Evans, portraitWalker EvansAmerican, 1903–1975

Moving Truck and Bureau Mirror

1929 · Photograph

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Where is “Moving Truck and Bureau Mirror” now? Collection: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Not on view at present. Checked September 22, 2026.

The Museum of Modern Art

New York, United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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56.1971

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In the life of Walker Evans

The whole life
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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”.

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