Photographs
Photographs
Property from the Collection of Marcia L. Due and Jerry L. Thompson
Walker Evans
'Hart Crane'
Lot Closed
April 13, 07:06 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Walker Evans
1903 - 1975
'Hart Crane'
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the mount, titled, dated, and annotated 'Brooklyn' in pencil and the photographer's credit (Keller C) and reproduction rights stamps on the reverse, framed, 1929
image: 4 ⅜ by 3 ½ in. (11.1 by 8.9 cm.)
frame: 17 ⅝ by 14 ⅝ in. (44.8 by 37.1 cm.)
Collection of Lincoln Kirstein
Bequest of the above
Lincoln Kirstein, Quarry: A Collection in Lieu of Memoirs (Twelvetrees Press, 1986), p. 29 (this print)
Walker Evans Incognito (New York: Eakins Press Foundation, 1995), unpaginated (this print)
Ellen Fleurov, Walker Evans, Simple Secrets: Photographs from the Collection of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1997), p. 35 and index
Walker Evans: The Interview: with Leslie George Katz (New York: Eakins Press Foundation, 2019), p. 51 (this print)
This portrait of the American poet Hart Crane originally comes from the collection of Lincoln Kirstein, writer, curator, and publisher. The men shared a mutual friend in Evans. This photograph hung among a series of portraits in Kirstein’s home on East 19th Street in New York.