Bed and Stove, Truro, Mass.
Artist
Walker Evans
(American, 1903 - 1975)
Date1931 (printed 1971)
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 5 3/4 × 7 1/2 in. (14.6 × 19.1 cm)
Support: 17 5/8 × 14 3/8 in. (44.8 × 36.5 cm)
Frame: 19 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 3/4 in. (49.5 × 41.9 × 1.9 cm)
Mat: 19 1/2 × 16 1/2 in. (49.5 × 41.9 cm)
Support: 17 5/8 × 14 3/8 in. (44.8 × 36.5 cm)
Frame: 19 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 3/4 in. (49.5 × 41.9 × 1.9 cm)
Mat: 19 1/2 × 16 1/2 in. (49.5 × 41.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Ives Family in memory of Norman S. and Constance T. Ives, 2016
Object number2016.21.3
DescriptionInterior of a room with ornate wallpaper, furnished with an old-fashioned black stove at left and an iron bedstead at right with filigree pattern. On the wall behind the stove is a framed portrait of a man with an oval mat around the picture.eMuseum Notes
During
the late 1920s and early 1930s, Walker Evans was a young man living in New York
and seeking his purpose. He had already dropped out of college and gone to
Paris, so he began exploring the city with his camera, photographing the Brooklyn
Bridge as well as the proliferating skyscrapers, billboards and lighted signs.
Around the same time, however, Evans was also traveling to small towns to
document Victorian architecture. This study is one of several he made in a
house in Truro, Mass., (a few hours away from Boston) that included a view of
the kitchen and some houseplants.
On View
Not on viewWalker Evans
1936 (printed 1971)
Walker Evans
1936 (printed later)
Walker Evans
1936 (printed 1971)