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)

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.
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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.

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