Object number1973.22.27.5
Coal Loader, Havana
Portfolio/Seriesfrom the portfolio Walker Evans
Date1932
Artist
Walker Evans
(American, 1903-1975)
CultureAmerican
MediumGelatin silver print, printed 1971
EditionEdition 77 of 100
DimensionsImage: 7 5/8 x 6 in. (19.4 x 15.2 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, lower right in pencil: Walker Evans
InscribedOn mount, lower left in pencil: V 77/100 1936-1971
BibliographyEvans, Walker, Gilles Mora, and John T. Hill. Walker Evans: Havana 1933. München: Schirmer/Mosel, 1989, pl. 33; 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. 63; Keller, Judith, Walker Evans, and J. Paul Getty Museum. Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection. Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995, cat. 292 Vassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryHard Work: Photographs of Labor from the Permanent Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 20 - March 6, 1992DescriptionMounted to board, hinged to the backing mat on the reverse of the mount along the upper edge. A portrait of an elderly man with a white beard and mustache wearing a tattered cap and holding two shovels over his left shoulder.
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