Faces, Pennsylvania Town

Photography and Media

1936, printed c. 1962

Walker Evans
American, 1903–1975

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Walker Evans
Title: Faces, Pennsylvania Town
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 1936
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: No markings recto or verso
Dimensions: Image/paper: 15 × 19.6 cm (5 15/16 × 7 3/4 in.); Mount: 45.2 × 35.6 cm (17 13/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. James Ward Thorne
Reference Number: 1962.149

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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