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Maker(s):Evans, Walker
Culture:American (1903 - 1975)
Title:Maine Pump
Date Made:1933
Type:Photograph
Materials:gelatin silver print
Place Made:United States
Measurements:mount: 17 7/8 x 13 13/16 in.; 45.4025 x 35.0838 cm; image: 8 x 5 7/8 in.; 20.32 x 14.9225 cm
Narrative Inscription:  undated, signed in pencil at lower right under image on mount: Walker Evans
Accession Number:  SC 1933.4.3
Credit Line:Purchased
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
1933_4_3.jpg

Description:
wooden building with ornamental wooden overhang; outdoors; open door; pump; architecture

Label Text:
In 1931, Walker Evans was hired by the writer and New York City cultural leader Lincoln Kirstein to photograph examples of Victorian architecture throughout New England. The book project that was planned, however, was never published. This image of the decorative trim on the architectural canopy over a water pump plays the bright light and graphic shadows against the delicate carving of the woodwork.

Subjects:
Photographic gelatin

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