EVANS WALKER (1903 1975) Sidewalk in Vicksburg Mississippi

Sale 2158 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 18,000

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000

EVANS, WALKER (1903-1975)
"Sidewalk in Vicksburg, Mississippi." Silver print, 7 1/2x9 1/2 inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), with a hand stamp and penciled notations on verso. 1936; printed 1940s-1950s

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From Harry Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C.; to The Baker Gallery, Kansas City; to the present owner.
Walkers Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration 1935-1938, unpaginated (variations).
Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, 154 (variant).

With an eye for the magisterial beauty of the everyday, Walker Evans's photographs are imbued with poetic lyricism, historical precision, and timeless humanity. He is at once a photographer of the vernacular--of the road sign, the façade of a wood sided building, the faces of farmers--and the chronicler of the great American scene. This photograph depicts the texture of everyday life for this small town during the Great Depression, both in the multi-layered, sign-covered façade of the building, and in the languid postures of the men.

Walker Evans is principally known for his photographs taken during the Great Depression of the architecture and inhabitants of rural towns across the East and South, depicting in straightforward and compelling images the region's toughness and poverty. He was honored with the first one-person exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, and published with James Agee the well-known "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men." His oft-quoted aspirations regarding his own work, that his photographs be "literate, authoritative, transcendent," is perhaps, the best description of his influential and penetrating photographs.