WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)

Torn Movie Poster, 1930

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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Torn Movie Poster, 1930
gelatin silver print, printed probably 1950s
signed in pencil (overmat); credited in pencil (verso)
image/sheet: 11 3/4 x 8 3/4 in. (29.8 x 22.2 cm.)

The estate of the artist;
Harry Lunn, Washington, D.C.;
Private collection, Chicago;
Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989.

Lincoln Kirstein, Walker Evans, American Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, part I, pl. 13 (variant).
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 67.
Jerry L. Thompson, Walker Evans at Work: 747 Photographs together with Documents Selected from Letters, Memoranda, Interviews, Notes, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, p. 68.
Michael Brix and Birgit Mayer (eds.), Walker Evans: America, Schirmer Art Books, Munich, 1990, pl. 11.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 309 (variant).
Belinda Rathbone, Walker Evans: A Biography, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1995, n.p.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 25 (variant).
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, fig. 194, pl. 258, p. 206.

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