Walker Evans

flush-mounted, with credit and numerical notations in pencil and a letterpress Museum of Modern Art exhibition label, with typed credit, title, date, and exhibition information, on the reverse, 1931 (Keller 152; American Photographs, Part Two, pl. 28)

Gift of the photographer to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1969

Sotheby's New York, Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art, 25 April 2001, Sale 7632, Lot 41

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Walker Evans: American Photographs, September - November 1938

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Walker Evans, January - April 1971

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Walker Evans: American Photographs, January - April 1989

This early exhibition print, on semi-glossy paper, has a rich range of tonality and delivers a remarkable level of detail throughout. In raking light, the following are visible: several small, soft circular-shaped impressions that do not break the emulsion; 2 linear scratches (each measuring no larger than one inch) that do not appear to break the emulsion in center and left portion of the image; and minor soiling, scuffs, and faint silvering. This print is flush-mounted and trimmed to the image, with some resultant wear at the edges. There are 4 tiny losses of emulsion along the upper edge. On the reverse of the mount, abrasions and remnants of earlier dry-mounting tissue indicate that this print was at one time affixed to a secondary mount. 'Evans' [twice], '#67,' and '38.2268' [twice] are written on the reverse in an unidentified hand in pencil. The Museum of Modern Art exhibition label on the reverse has the following typed information: Artist 'EVANS' Title 'GOTHIC GATE COTTAGE NEAR POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK, 1931' Circulating Exhibition No. '57' Museum No. '38.2268' [crossed out and '1228.69' written in pencil] Box No. 'GR. II' [in pencil]
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