Billboard / Walker Evans

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Accession Number: 1990/2.49
Title: Billboard
Artist: Walker Evans
Artist Nationality: American
Artist Life Dates: 1903-1975
Medium and Support: gelatin silver print on paper
Object Creation Date: circa 1934
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Lunn, Jr., in Honor of the Centennial of The Michigan Daily
Inscription: Inscribed in pencil, verso, r.l.: 12. Inscribed in pencil, verso, l.l.: #1 Stamped, dated and numbered in pencil, verso, lower center: Walker Evans/XXI (in box) 37 (in box)/c.1937
Dimensions: 27.6 cm x 17.8 cm (10 7/8 in. x 7 in.)
Century: 20th century
Primary Keywords: advertisement; billboards; figures; full-length; lamp
Secondary Keywords: buildings and the land; business and commerce; how we live; modern and contemporary art; objects; open spaces and site elements; people and occupations; portfolios; portraits; site elements
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 993 x 1461
File Size: 69 KB
Record: 1990/2.49
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1990-sl-2.49/1990_2.49.jpg

In public portfolios: 0 - Blair, f16 - Narrative and Visual Forms (24); photojournalism (194); Technology and modernity in photography 1900-1948 (44); Walker Evans (31)

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