What, No Garters? (Chicago)

Photography and Media

1946

Walker Evans
American, 1903–1975

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Walker Evans
Title: What, No Garters? (Chicago)
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1946
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; stamped and inscribed verso, lower center, in black ink and graphite: "Walker Evans [stamped in black ink] / XV [inscribed in graphite/in stamped rectangle] 66 [inscribed in graphite/in stamped rectangle] / 14-125 [inscribd in graphite]; inscribed verso, lower left, in graphite: "WEF 17 F&L 150"
Dimensions: Image: 19.2 × 18.9 cm (7 9/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Paper: 35.3 × 27.9 cm (13 15/16 × 11 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg
Reference Number: 1991.1471

Art Institute of Chicago, “Walker Evans: Leaving Things as They Are,” September 12–November 8, 1987. (David Travis)
Paris, France, Centre Georges Pompidou, “Walker Evans,” April, 26, 2017-August, 14, 2017; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September 30, 2017-February 4, 2018. (Clément Chéroux)

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