Untitled (Schmidt’s can)
Artist
Walker Evans
(American, 1903 - 1975)
Date1974
Mediumdye diffusion print
DimensionsImage: 3 1/8 × 3 1/8 in. (7.9 × 7.9 cm)
Plate Mark: 4 1/4 × 3 1/2 in. (10.8 × 8.9 cm)
Plate Mark: 4 1/4 × 3 1/2 in. (10.8 × 8.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Hubbard, 2017
Object number2017.18.3
DescriptionFlattened Schmidt’s beer can in center of composition lying on ground (possibly concrete studded with pebbles)Text Entries
Best
known for his influential black-and-white photographs of mid-century American
vernacular architecture and signage – as well as the powerful photographs he
made in the southern U.S. during his short stint with the Farm Security
Administration – Evans began making color pictures with the Polaroid SX-70
camera in 1972 and used it for two years, creating more than 2,400 images. His
lifelong love of text, signs, home-made objects, and things that bear evidence
of time or heavy use are evident in this piece.
The Jacob Schmidt Brewing Company was founded in 1855 at 882
W. Seventh Street in St. Paul, Minnesota, on the site of the North Star Brewery
on the Mississippi River. The company is now owned by Pabst Brewing Company.
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