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Walker Evans

[American Social Realist Photographer, 1903-1975]

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Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
15 photographs by Walker Evans online

Walker Evans at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Exhibition: Walker Evans: Before + After

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
138 works online by Evans

Walker Evans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
4 photographs

Walker Evans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
New York [Subway Passengers, New York], 1938

Walker Evans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935

Walker Evans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
16 photographs from a 2000 exhibition of the artist's work

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Over 500 photographs by Walker Evans, created for the U.S. Farm Security Administration

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Main Street, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1931

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Sidewalk in Vicksburg, Mississippi, photograph

Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Store in Alabama

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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A Miner's Home, West Virginia

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Political Poster, Massachusetts Village, 1929

David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Tuscaloosa Auto Wrecking Co.

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
Sidewalk and Shopfront, New Orleans, 1971

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High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
West Virginia Living Room, 1935

Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Photographs" and navigate to photograph #4

Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire

Walker Evans in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Walker Evans in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin   NEW!
Tenant Farmer Wife (Allie Mae Burroughs)

Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago

Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts
Shop Fronts and Men, Selma, Alabama, 1935

Pomona College Museum of Art, California
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Rockford Art Museum, Illinois
Municipal Trailer Camp, 1941

Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago

Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts

Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Alabama Tenant Farmer (Floyd Burroughs), 1936

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Subway Portrait

 
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

PBS
"The Hungry Eye"

Resource Library Magazine

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Subway Portrait

The New Criterion
The passion of Walker Evans, article by Daniel Mark Epstein

The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Walker Evans at the Met: A Devotion to High Art

  
 
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Houses, Atlanta, Georgia, 1936
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