Walker Evans - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | Phillips
  • The photograph offered here is a rare early print of one of Walker Evans’s distinctive views of the American South. It bears two stamps of the Resettlement Administration on its verso. In 1935, Evans was hired by Roy Stryker, head of the Information Division of the Resettlement Administration, a governmental agency of the New Deal, to document RA projects across the country. The RA was transferred in 1937 to the Farm Security Administration, with Stryker in charge of assigning photographers. This photograph pre-dates that transition.

    • Provenance

      Estate of Robert Miller, New York
      Robert Miller Gallery, New York

    • Literature

      Maddox, Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration 1935-1938, pl. 2
      Harper and Row, Walker Evans: First and Last, p. 106
      Hambourg and Rosenheim, Walker Evans, p. 71, fig. 81

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View of Morgantown, West Virginia

1935
Gelatin silver print.
7 5/8 x 9 3/4 in. (19.4 x 24.8 cm)
'Resettlement Administration Photograph' copyright credit stamp and 'RA 0890A' stamp on the verso.

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Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $15,240

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New York Auction 11 October 2023