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Indepth Arts News:
"Walker Evans"
2000-02-01 until 2000-05-14
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
This major retrospective of the work of American
photographer Walker Evans (1903–1975) displays
some 175 vintage prints from public and private
collections throughout the United States and Canada,
and draws on newly available material from the
photographer's archive, which was acquired by the
Metropolitan Museum in 1994. The photographs span
the artist's long and productive career, focusing not
only on the classic pictorial documents of America
during the Depression, but also on little-known
experimental images from the 1920s, photo-essays
for Fortune magazine from the 1940s and 1950s,
and SX-70 Polaroid color prints from the 1970s.
The exhibition is accompanied by two publications: a
monographic treatment of Evans's work; and an
anthology of materials that makes available for the
first time the artist's early short stories, important
letters, and critical essays now housed in the Walker
Evans Archive.
The exhibition is made possible by Prudential
Securities. The conservation of the Walker Evans
Archive has been made possible through the generous
support of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation
as part of the Save America's Treasures
program. Additional conservation support has been
provided by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Henry
Nias Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library
Services, and The Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation. The exhibition catalogue is made
possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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