Walker Evans

American | 1903 - 1975

Walker Evans was an American photographer who was born in 1903. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Centre Pompidou Paris have featured Walker Evans's work in the past.Walker Evans's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 30 USD to 389,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 389,000 USD for FACES, PENNSYLVANIA TOWN (JOHNSTOWN), sold at Sotheby's New York in 2014. In the past 12 months, his photographs have averaged 2,855 USD.Walker Evans has been featured in articles for The Guardian, ArtDaily and BmoreArt. The most recent article is ‘American Photography’: centuries-spanning show reveals timely truths written for Wallpaper in February 2025. The artist died in 1975.

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Star Pressing Club, Vicksburg, MS ,1936

By Walker Evans

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Roadside Stand, Vicinity Birmingham, Alabama ,1936

By Walker Evans

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'PENNY PICTURE DISPLAY, SAVANNAH'

By Walker Evans

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Forty-six gelatin photographs dating from his 1933 trip to Cuba

By Walker Evans

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FLOYD BURROUGHS, A COTTON SHARECROPPER, HALE COUNTY, ALABAMA - Walker Evans

FLOYD BURROUGHS, A COTTON SHARECROPPER, HALE COUNTY, ALABAMA ,1903

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Star Pressing Club, Vicksburg, MS - Walker Evans

Star Pressing Club, Vicksburg, MS ,1936

By Walker Evans

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Roadside Stand, Vicinity Birmingham, Alabama - Walker Evans

Roadside Stand, Vicinity Birmingham, Alabama ,1936

By Walker Evans

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By Walker Evans

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Prentiss Clothes ,1950

By Walker Evans

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Two Bobbins, Ivory Coast ,1935

By Walker Evans

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Current Exhibitions

Sculpture Photographed: A View from the Archive of Sculptors’ Papers

Leeds Art Gallery

Leeds | UK

Jul 14,2024 - Mar 18,2025

A Generous Outlook: Gifts from Fay Gallus and Richard Sweet

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Minneapolis | Minnesota | USA

Nov 23,2024 - Apr 13,2025

Portal: The Window in American Photography

Edward Hopper House

Nyack | New York | USA

Jan 08,2025 - Apr 27,2025

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Articles

‘American Photography’: centuries-spanning show reveals timely truths

Wallpaper 13/02/2025

At the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Europe’s first major survey of American photography reveals the contradictions and complexities that have long defined this world superpower.

American Photography: unforgettable images of the beauty and brutality of a nation

The Guardian 12/02/2025

Astounding shots of a wounded civil war major and a flogged Black man sit amid amateur snaps and propaganda in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum – showcasing the nation’s unrivalled mastery of the camera.

Through The Lens: Exploring The Window in American Photography at The Hopper House

ArtDaily 28/01/2025

The Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center opened the exhibition, Portal: The Window in American Photography...

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Coverage

“ ..Since that time it has become famous for Evans’ straight-forward documentary photographs and Agee’s romantic and detailed text.... ”
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James Cohan, New York (26th Street)

“ ..Decade by Decade does more than look back nostalgically at Evans’ storied career... ”
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Cincinnati Art Museum

“ ..Decade by Decade shows that is impossible to overstate the extent to which Evans’s proto-Pop sensibilities helped form a modern camera vision that continues to resonate to this day... ”
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Cincinnati Art Museum

“ ..Evans sometimes called his work “lyric documentary,” presenting images that purport to be more or less “straight photography” but which have been captured, edited, and printed with a high degree of sensitivity... ”
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Florence Griswold Museum