Political Poster, Massachusetts Village
Artist
Walker Evans
(American, 1903 - 1975)
Date1929 (printed 1971)
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 6 1/4 × 4 7/8 in. (15.9 × 12.4 cm)
Support: 7 × 5 5/8 in. (17.8 × 14.3 cm)
Mat: 17 5/8 × 14 5/8 in. (44.8 × 37.1 cm)
Frame: 19 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 3/4 in. (49.5 × 41.9 × 1.9 cm)
Support: 7 × 5 5/8 in. (17.8 × 14.3 cm)
Mat: 17 5/8 × 14 5/8 in. (44.8 × 37.1 cm)
Frame: 19 1/2 × 16 1/2 × 3/4 in. (49.5 × 41.9 × 1.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Ives Family in memory of Norman S. and Constance T. Ives, 2016
Object number2016.21.7
DescriptionView of a window with six visible panes. Behind it are some flowers at left, a folded piece of paper or cardboard, and a poster of a Caucasian man wearing a jacket and a striped necktie.Text Entries
Photographer
Walker Evans loved posters and signs and he photographed them throughout his
long career. This image is from early in his life as a photographer when he was
searching for his voice as an artist. Around the time this picture was made,
Evans was photographing in New York City and had made a few pictures of shop
windows. Here he frames a faded political poster in the window of a shop in
Massachusetts, making a humorous portrait as well as creating a mood of times
gone by.
For another image by Walker Evans
taken in Massachusetts, see “Bed and Stove, Truro, Mass.” (2016.21.3) from the
same portfolio and donor.
On View
Not on viewWalker Evans
1936 (printed 1971)