Object number1973.22.27.1
Minstrel Showbill, Alabama
Portfolio/Seriesfrom the portfolio Walker Evans
Date1936
Artist
Walker Evans
(American, 1903-1975)
CultureAmerican
MediumGelatin silver print, printed 1971
EditionEdition 77 of 100
DimensionsImage: 7 1/8 x 9 3/8 in. (18.1 x 23.8 cm)
Mount: 18 x 14 3/4 in. (45.7 x 37.5 cm)
Matted: 22 x 16 in. (55.9 x 40.6 cm)
Mount: 18 x 14 3/4 in. (45.7 x 37.5 cm)
Matted: 22 x 16 in. (55.9 x 40.6 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, The Charles E. Merrill Trust Fund and Art Gallery Fund
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn mount, signed lower right in pencil: Walker Evans
InscribedOn mount, by artist, lower left in pencil: I 77/100 1936-1971
BibliographyEvans, Walker, and Jerald C. Maddox. Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, A Catalog of Photographic Prints Available from the Farm Security Administration Collection in the Library of Congress. New York: Da Capo Press, 1976, ref. 382; Mora, Gilles, and John T. Hill. Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1993, pg. 148 Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryBlazing Saddle: Reimagining the American West, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 28 - June 21, 2020DescriptionMounted to board, hinged to the backing mat on the reverse of the mount along the upper edge. An image of a brick wall with a peeling advertisement for a minstrel show, J.C. Lincoln's Mighty Minstrels, depicting Black men and women in evening wear, alongside a largely pristine advertisement of a Western show, Buck Jones' The Roaring West, depicting a white man in a cowboy hat with a pistol.
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