Penny Picture Display, Savannah by Walker Evans
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain

Penny Picture Display, Savannah

Walker Evans · 1936, printed c. 1962

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Master Photographers from the Permanent Collection," February 14-June 10, 1984.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Hot Streaks," February 21-May 2, 2004. (David Travis).
  • 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.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, "Photography on Display: Modern Treasures," May 9–September 13, 2009.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, “In the Vernacular,” February 6–May 31, 2010. (Greg Harris)
  • 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)

Literature

Published references

  • Westerbeck, Colin and Joel Meyerowitz. 1994. "Bystander: A History of Street Photography." Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown and Company. p. 279. fig. 14.6. (either this or 1983.1489)

Comparables

Related holdings by the same hand

Museum holdings, not sale records. Auction results are only shown when a licensed price source is connected.

Research assistant

Ask about this record