Description:
Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)
Four Photographs of Buildings:Birmingham, Ala. Boarding House, 1936, Kentucky, 1961, Two Outhouses, and Old Church;
Birmingham identified with an artist's stamp, Lyme, Connecticut, and titled, dated, and inscribed "J.D." in pencil on verso; Kentucky identified with an artist's stamp, titled and dated in pencil on verso; Old Church and Two Outhouses unsigned. Gelatin silver prints, image sizes to 11 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (29.2 x 26 cm),unmatted, unframed.
Condition: All but Church mounted to matboard, Birmingham scattered slight indentations to surface, Kentucky slight rippling, Church with printing flaws u.r.
Provenance: Through the estate of Matthew Wysocki (1920-1991),artist, photographer, professor, and chairman of Dartmouth College's visual studies department (1966-1989),to the present owner by family descent, Connecticut.
Estimate $4,000-6,000
Matboard sizes 18 x 14 3/4 in. (45.7 x 37.5 cm),Kentucky with slight scattered surface abrasions, with disadhesion to matboard, Church with slight indentations in the margin to corners, minor scattered handling creases, Outhouses with mounting imperfections, minor slivering, Boarding House with scattered slight mounting imperfections.
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