Frame Houses in Virginia

Photography and Media

1936, printed c. 1962

Walker Evans
American, 1903–1975

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Walker Evans
Title: Frame Houses in Virginia
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date: Modeled 1936
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on mount, in graphite: "R [?] 72"; verso, on mount, lower right, in graphite: "L64.229.13"
Dimensions: Image/paper: 14.5 × 20.6 cm (5 3/4 × 8 1/8 in.); Mount: 45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. James Ward Thorne
Reference Number: 1962.173

Chevrier, Jean-Francois, Allan Sekula, and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh. 1992. “Walker Evans and Dan Graham.” Exh. cat. Witte de With. Westfalisches Landesmuseum fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte/Musees de Marseille/Whitney Museum of American Art. p. 102.
Corwin, Sharon, Jessica May, and Terri Weissman. 2010. “American Modern: Documentary Photography by Abbott, Evans, and Bourke-White.” Exh. cat. Amon Carter Museum and Colby College Museum of Art/University of California Press. p. 97, pl. 40.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Seldom Seen Photographs from the Permanent Collection,” June 5, 1976-August 15, 1976.
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.
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, “American Modern: Abbott, Evans, Bourke-White,” October 2, 2010–January 2, 2011; traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, February 5–May 15, 2011; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, July 9–October 2, 2011.
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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