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WALKER EVANS, (American, 1903-1975), PENNY PICTURE DISPLAY, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA (MoMA EXHIBITION MU...
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WALKER EVANS
(American, 1903-1975)
PENNY PICTURE DISPLAY, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA (MoMA EXHIBITION MURAL)
copyright stamp on verso
The Museum of Modern Art
exhibition label on verso
gelatin silver print in 2 panels
96 x 79 in. (243. 8 x 200.7 cm)
1936
printed circa 1970 for the Evans Retrospective at MoMA
this print is unique in this size
ESTIMATE: $20,000-30,000
<p>PROVENANCE
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, to the current owner, New York
<p>EXHIBITED
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, WALKER EVANS, January 26-
April 11, 1971 (traveled to seven additional museums)
New York, Laurence Miller Gallery, WALKER EVANS: MURALS FROM THE 1971 MoMA RETROSPECTIVE, July 15-August 21, 1998
<p>LITERATURE
(also titled: PHOTOGRAPHER'S WINDOW DISPLAY, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA and STUDIO PORTRAITS, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA)
Walker Evans, AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1938, part I, pl. 2 (variant cropping illustrated, minus top row of portraits)
John Szarkowski, LOOKING AT PHOTOGRAPHS: 100 PICTURES FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1973, p. 117 (illustrated)
WALKER EVANS: PHOTOGRAPHS FOR THE FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, 1935-1938, New York, Da Capo Press, 1973, no. 229 (illustrated)
WALKER EVANS: SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS, New York, Double Elephant Press, 1974, pl. 7 (illustrated)
Robert Doty, ed., PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICA, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art/Random House, 1974, p. 135 (illustrated)
WALKER EVANS: FIRST AND LAST, New York, Harper & Row, 1978, no. 127 (illustrated)
Lloyd Fonvielle, WALKER EVANS, Millerton, New York, Aperture, 1979,
p. 89 (illustrated)
Jerry L. Thompson and John T. Hill, WALKER EVANS AT WORK, New York, Harper & Row, 1982, cover and p. 139 (variants illustrated)
WALKER EVANS 1903/1974, Valencia, Conselleria de Cultura, Eudcació i Ciencia de la Generalitat Valenciana, 1983, p. 120 (illustrated)
Jonathan Green, AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY: A CRITICAL HISTORY 1945 TO THE PRESENT, NEW YORK, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984, p. 22 (illustrated)
Michel Frizot, et al., IDENTITÉS: DE DISDERI AU PHOTOMATON, Paris, Centre National de la Photographie, 1985, p. 119 (illustrated)
Terence Pitts, PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE AMERICAN GRAIN: DISCOVERING A NATIVE AMERICAN AESTHETIC, TUcsON, Center for Creative Photography, The Universty of Arizona, 1988, p. 42 (illustrated)
Maria Morris Hambourg and Christopher Phillips, THE NEW VISION: PHOTOGRAPHS BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS, FORD MOTOR COMPANY COLLECTION AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989, pl. 89 (illustrated)
Walker Evans, AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, part I, pl. 2 (variant cropping illustrated, minus top row of portraits)
Michael Brix and Birgit Mayer, eds., WALKER EVANS: AMERIKA, Munich, Schirmer/Mosel, 1990, p. 256, cat. no. 121 (illustrated)
WALKER EVANS, Paris, Centre National de la Photographie, Photo Poche
no. 45, 1990, pl. 51 (illustrated)
Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, WALKER EVANS: LA SOIF DU REGARD, Paris, Éditions du Regard, 1993, p. 135 (illustrated, also variant cropping illustrated on p. 169, fig. 77)
Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, WALKER EVANS: THE HUNGRY EYE, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1993, p. 135 (illustrated, also variant cropping illustrated on p. 169, fig. 77)
Judith Keller, WALKER EVANS: THE GETTY MUSEUM COLLECTION, Malibu,
J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995, p. 161, no. 517 (illustrated, also variants
illustrated as nos. 518 and 519)
Ellen Fleurov, WALKER EVANS: SIMPLE SECRETS, Atlanta, High Museum of Art, 1998, p. 150, cat. no. 52 (illustrated; detail illustrated on p. 89, cat. no. 51)
Jeff Rosenheim, Maria Morris Hambourg, Douglas Eklund and Mia Fineman, WALKER EVANS, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000, pl. 66 (variant cropping illustrated, minus top row of portraits)
Peter Galassi, WALKER EVANS & COMPANY, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2000, p. 175, pl. 205 (illustrated)
Luc Sante, WALKER EVANS 55, London, Phaidon, 2001, p. 37 (illustrated)
Printed from the Library of Congress negative for the 1971 Walker Evans retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, this unique mural-size print of Evans's PENNY PICTURE DISPLAY is a relic from that landmark exhibition. Twelve other important images by Evans were reprinted in the same format, each approximately eight by six feet, and consisting of two panels joined together. The photo-murals strategically separated the exhibition's white walls, which were each lined with 200 smaller images.
The Depression-era window display depicting a grid of individual physiognomies became an 8 x 10-inch image that was more graphic than informative. It was then reprinted to a size even larger than the original window display, and now possesses a grainier quality and a different meaning. Evans was fascinated by how reproductions could alter the meaning of an original, demonstrated by his numerous photographs of billboards, signs and posters.
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