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Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. James Ward Thorne
Reference Number
1962.166
Extended information about this artwork
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” March 20–May 30, 1976. (Miles Barth)
Rotterdam, Netherlands, Witte de With, “Walker Evans/Dan Graham,” August 29–October 11, 1992; traveled to Marseille, France, Musee Cantini, November 6, 1992–January 10, 1993; Munster, Germany, Westfalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, February 14–March 28, 1993; and New York, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, December 17, 1993 -March 21, 1994.
Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Folk Art and Photography, “Picturing the South, 1860–1996,” May 16–October 11, 1996.
Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art, “Walker Evans, Simple Secrets: Photographs from the Collection of Marian and Benjamin A. Hill,” March 24 - June 14, 1998; travelled to the International Center of Photography, New York, September 18 - November 29, 1998, Whitney Museum of Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut, December 11- February 24, 1999, and
Detroit Institute of Arts, April 14 - June 27, 1999.
Art Institute of Chicago, “After the Crash: Picturing the United States 1930-1943,” October 21, 2000–January 28, 2001. (Mark Pascal and Kristin Nagel Merrill)(Gallery 1)
Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 10 Permanent Collection Rotation, May 28-November 6, 2016.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photography + Folk Art: Looking for America in the 1930s,” September 21, 2019–January 19, 2020. (Galleries 1–4) (Elizabeth Siegel and Elizabeth McGoey)
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