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Torn Movie Poster, 1930
Details
WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Torn Movie Poster, 1930
gelatin silver print, printed probably 1950s
signed in pencil (overmat); credited in pencil (verso)
image/sheet: 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (29.8 x 22.2 cm.)
Torn Movie Poster, 1930
gelatin silver print, printed probably 1950s
signed in pencil (overmat); credited in pencil (verso)
image/sheet: 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (29.8 x 22.2 cm.)
Provenance
The estate of the artist;
Harry Lunn, Washington, D.C.;
Private collection, Chicago;
Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989.
Harry Lunn, Washington, D.C.;
Private collection, Chicago;
Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989.
Literature
Lincoln Kirstein, Walker Evans, American Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, part I, pl. 13 (variant).
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 67.
Jerry L. Thompson, Walker Evans at Work: 747 Photographs together with Documents Selected from Letters, Memoranda, Interviews, Notes, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, p. 68.
Michael Brix and Birgit Mayer (eds.), Walker Evans: America, Schirmer Art Books, Munich, 1990, pl. 11.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 309 (variant).
Belinda Rathbone, Walker Evans: A Biography, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1995, n.p.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 25 (variant).
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, fig. 194, pl. 258, p. 206.
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 67.
Jerry L. Thompson, Walker Evans at Work: 747 Photographs together with Documents Selected from Letters, Memoranda, Interviews, Notes, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, p. 68.
Michael Brix and Birgit Mayer (eds.), Walker Evans: America, Schirmer Art Books, Munich, 1990, pl. 11.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 309 (variant).
Belinda Rathbone, Walker Evans: A Biography, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1995, n.p.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 25 (variant).
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, fig. 194, pl. 258, p. 206.
Exhibited
Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, An American Portrait: Photographs from the Collection of Diann and Thomas Mann, April 1–June 12, 1994, no. 30.