Alfred Petersen's Kitchen Table, Enfield, New Hampshire

Walker Evans, American, 1903 - 1975

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1972

Gelatin silver print

Overall: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Janet Petersen Mayers, Class of 1947W

2008.25.2

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Stamp, on reserve: WALKER EVANS / BOX 310 RTE. 3 / OLD LYME/ CONN. 06371

Course History

WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014

ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020

Art History 48.02, Histories of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2024

Exhibition History

In Residence: Contemporary Art at Dartmouth, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-July 6, 2014.

Publication History

Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 58 , no. 42

Provenance

The artist [taken during his tenure as Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College, Fall 1972]; to Alfred Petersen, Enfield, New Hampshire; to his daughter, Janet Petersen Mayers, Delta, Ohio; given to present collection, 2008.

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