Object number1987.2.27.2

Breakfast Room, Belle Grove Plantation, White Chapel, Louisiana

DateMarch 1935

Artist Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 7 7/8 x 9 13/16 in. (20 x 25 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/16 x 9 13/16 in. (18 x 25 cm)
Matted: 22 x 16 in. (55.9 x 40.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Dorothy Seiberling Steinberg, class of 1943

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

InscribedOn verso, upper left in pencil [upside down]: 187+; lower center: WALKER EVANS photograph; lower right corner: 87.2.27.2; 1.3

BibliographyAlpers, Svetlana. Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2020, pl. 68; Chéroux, Clément, Svetlana Alpers, Anne Bertrand, David Campany, Julie Jones, and Walker Evans. Walker Evans. Paris, France: Centre Pompidou, 2017, pg. 167; Evans, Walker. Walker Evans / With an Introduction by John Szarkowski. New York: Museum of Modern Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., 1971, pg. 77; Evans, Walker, Ellen. Fleurov, Marian. Hill, and Benjamin A. Hill. Walker Evans, Simple Secrets: Photographs from the Collection of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill / With an Introduction by Ellen Fleurov. Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art, 1997, pg. 81; Greenough, Sarah, and Walker Evans. Walker Evans Subways and Streets. Washington, D.C: National Gallery of Art, 1991, fig. 17, pg. 65; Keller, Judith, Walker Evans, and J. Paul Getty Museum. Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection. Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995, cat. 464; Mellow, James Robert. Walker Evans. New York: Basic Books, 1999, pg. 234; Mora, Gilles, and John T. Hill. Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1993, pp. 131, 170

Vassar Exhibitions

The Friends Focus: On Photography

Exhibition HistoryThe Friends Focus: On Photography, Frances Lehman Loeb Arts Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, December 7, 1989 - February 11, 1990
DescriptionAn image of an interior with ornate columns, pilasters, and ceiling details, now abandoned and crumbling.

Terms

White Castle

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