Torn Movie Poster; Truro, Massachusetts

Photography and Media

1930, printed c. 1962

Walker Evans
American, 1903–1975

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Walker Evans
Title: Torn Movie Poster; Truro, Massachusetts
Origin: United States
Date: Made 1930
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Inscriptions: No markings recto or verso
Dimensions: 15.8 × 10.7 cm (image/paper/first mount); 45.7 × 35.6 cm (second mount)
Credit Line: Restricted gift of Mrs. James Ward Thorne
Reference Number: 1962.151

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.
New York, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, “The American Century: Art and Culture” April 22 - August 22, 1999.
Villeneuve-d’Ascq, France, Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne d’art contemporain et d’art brut, “The Magical City,” September 29, 2012-January, 13,2013. (Sophie Levy)
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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