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.eMuseum Notes
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.
On View
Not on view
Walker Evans
1936 (printed 1971)
