A black and white photograph of an empty ornate room.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The black and white photograph shows a view of one end of an empty room. On the left two sets of window shutters are visible. In the center foreground is a window with the shutters closed at the end of a small hallway. To either side of the opening for the hallway are fluted columns with heavily decorated capitals. Along the walls of the room there are pilasters with the same heavily decorated capitals. There is ornate crown molding which appears stained in some areas.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.290
People
Walker Evans, American (St. Louis, Mo., USA 1903 - 1975 New Haven, Conn., USA)
Title
The Breakfast Room, Belle Grove Plantation, Louisiana
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1935
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States, Louisiana
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/143518

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 18.7 x 22.9 cm (7 3/8 x 9 in.)
sheet: 35.7 x 37.5 cm (14 1/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: recto of mount, below b.r. corner of image, in graphite: Walker Evans 1935
  • inscription: verso of mount, center, in graphite: The Breakfast Room
    Belle Grove Plantation
    Louisiana, 1935
  • stamp: verso of mount, center, in black ink: Walker Evans
    Rights Reserved
  • label: Removed from backing board: Straight Photography as Art / Walker Evans / The Breakfast Room: Belle Grove / Plantation / Louisiana / 1935

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Copyright
© Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.290
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Olivier Richon, Walker Evans: Kitchen Corner, Afterall Books (London, 2019), pp. 41, 50, fig. 2, ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1320 Social Realism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/05/2018 - 10/18/2018

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