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Bed and Stove, Truro, Mass.
Bed and Stove, Truro, Mass.
Bed and Stove, Truro, Mass.

Bed and Stove, Truro, Mass.

Artist (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)
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.
Text Entries
After giving a lecture at Yale University in 1964, Evans began teaching there the following year as a professor of graphic design. He found a dynamic group of colleagues including Herbert Matter and Norman Seaton Ives. Ives worked with Evans to create a portfolio of his photographs issued in 1971, of which this photograph was a part (see object file for detailed publishing information and list of photographs included, all shot in the 1930s).
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.
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