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Untitled (Architectural Study with Cranes and Cables), Walker Evans, c. 1928

Untitled (Architectural Study with Cranes and Cables)

c. 1928 · Photograph

Particulars

c. 1928
19031975
Accession number
1994.867

Meanwhile, in the life of Walker Evans

The whole life
  1. 1926

    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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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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Walker Evans, portraitWalker EvansAmerican, 1903–1975

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Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

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Cityscape

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PhotographsGelatin silver printModernism20th centuryUnited States

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African Sculpture, Walker Evans, 1935

African Sculpture

1935 · The Museum of Modern Art

Coney Island, New York, Walker Evans, 1928 or 1929

Coney Island, New York

1928 or 1929 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Manhattan, Walker Evans, c. 1928

Manhattan

c. 1928 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art

New York City, Walker Evans, 1928-1929

New York City

1928-1929 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Coney Island, New York, Walker Evans, 1928 or 1929

Coney Island, New York

1928 or 1929 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Untitled, Walker Evans, c. 1928

Untitled

c. 1928 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Walker Evans, c. 1928

Untitled

c. 1928 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Walker Evans, c. 1928

Untitled

c. 1928 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

The Bedroom, Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Vincent van Gogh

The Bedroom, 1889

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884, Georges Seurat, 1884–86, border added 1888–89

Georges Seurat

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884–86, border added 1888–89

Paris Street; Rainy Day, Gustave Caillebotte, 1877

Gustave Caillebotte

Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877

Two Sisters (On the Terrace), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881

The Basket of Apples, Paul Cézanne, c. 1893

Paul Cézanne

The Basket of Apples, c. 1893

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), Claude Monet, 1890–91

Claude Monet

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890–91

American Gothic, Grant Wood, 1930

Grant Wood

American Gothic, 1930

Nighthawks, Edward Hopper, 1942

Edward Hopper

Nighthawks, 1942

View of Diemen, Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1655

Rembrandt van Rijn

View of Diemen, c. 1655

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Landscape with a Cottage and a Large Tree, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641

Rembrandt van Rijn

Landscape with a Cottage and a Large Tree, 1641

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

[Jesus mit seinen Eltern, aus dem Tempel heimkehrend; Christ Returning from the Temple with his Parents; Retour d'Egypte], Rembrandt, 1654

Rembrandt van Rijn

[Jesus mit seinen Eltern, aus dem Tempel heimkehrend; Christ Returning from the Temple with his Parents; Retour d'Egypte], 1654

Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

Diorama Exhibition Poster, Edvard Munch, 1910

Edvard Munch

Diorama Exhibition Poster, 1910

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Pokrowa Street, Vitebsk, Marc Chagall, 1922

Marc Chagall

Pokrowa Street, Vitebsk, 1922

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Paris Street; Rainy Day, Gustave Caillebotte, 1877

Gustave Caillebotte

Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877

Art Institute of Chicago

The Little Courier, Albrecht Dürer, c. 1496

Albrecht Dürer

The Little Courier, c. 1496

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Christ on the Cross, Paulus Pontius, after Sir Peter Paul Rubens, 1631

Peter Paul Rubens

Christ on the Cross, 1631

Not on view · National Gallery of Art