Jigsaw House at Ocean City, New Jersey

Photography and Media

1931, printed c. 1962

Walker Evans
American, 1903–1975

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Walker Evans
Title: Jigsaw House at Ocean City, New Jersey
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 1931
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on mount, lower right, in graphite: "L64.229.16"
Dimensions: Image/paper: 14.6 × 12.5 cm (5 3/4 × 4 15/16 in.); Mount: 45.7 × 35.3 cm (18 × 13 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. James Ward Thorne
Reference Number: 1962.175

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. 117.

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.
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Photographer’s Curator: Hugh Edwards at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1959-1970,” May 24-October 29, 2017. (Elizabeth Siegel)
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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