Trinity Church, Cornish, New Hampshire

Walker Evans, American, 1903 - 1975

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1972

Gelatin silver print

Overall: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Class of 1935

PH.973.9

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, on mat, lower right: Walker Evans, 1972

Course History

WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014

SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Winter 2015

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

Exhibition History

Arts Education, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1982.

Cornish, New Hampshire The First Hundred Years 1763-1863, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire, July 1-July 31, 1976.

Focus on Photography, Works from 1950 to Today, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 13-March 8, 2009.

Homage to Walker Evans, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 1975.

Hopkins Center 25th Anniversary Exhibition: Artists-In-Residence at Dartmouth:, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 12-May 22, 1988.

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.

Mining Photography: Selecting Work from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Studio Art 30 & 75, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 6-June 4, 2000.

Palmer Lounge, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1973.

Remembrance of Things Past, Prints and Photographs from the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-September 2, 2000. [Curated by Jennifer Reily, Class of 2000, Class of 1954 Intern for the 65th Reunion of the Class of 1935]

The Photographer's Eye, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, SArt 29 &30, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 8-June 13, 2003.

Walker Evans, Artist-in-Residence, Jaffee-Freide Gallery, The Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 27-November 26, 1972.

Publication History

Wade, Hugh Mason. A Brief History of Cornish, 1763-1974, 2nd Revised Edition, prepard by Jim Atkinson for the Cornish Historical Society, Cover Illustration.

Treasures of the Hood Museum of Art, Darmouth College, New York, Hudson Hill Press, 1985, pp.138-139.

Patricia Harris, Art of the State of New Hampshire, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000, 96 p., ill.

Emily Shubert Burke, Focus on Photography, Works for 1950 to Today, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p. 8, no. 10.

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p.199, no.237.

Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 57 , no. 40

John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 182, ill. plate no. 113.

Provenance

The artist [made during his tenure as Artist-in-Residence, Dartmouth College, Fall 1972]; sold to present collection.

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