The Metropolitan Museum of Art - [Lunchroom Window, New York]

[Lunchroom Window, New York]

Date:: 1929
Medium:: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:: 11.7 x 18.5 cm (4 5/8 x 7 1/4 in.)
Classification:: Photographs
Credit Line:: Gift of Arnold H. Crane, 1971
Accession Number:: 1971.646.35
Rights and Reproduction:: © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Description

As early as the 1870s, the quick-lunch counter had become commonplace in New York City. With the introduction and success of the coin-operated automat in the 1910s, lunch and coffee could be had in a New York minute. Walker Evans discovered this trio of natty, pre-stock market crash consumers near Grand Central terminal at a lunchroom at the corner of Lexington Avenue and 44th Street.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: Photographer's stamp on mount, verso CR: "WALKER EVANS"; collector's stamp on mount, verso LR: "COLLECTION // ARNOLD H. CRANE, CHICAGO, U.S.A."; inscribed in hand of Arnold Crane on mount, verso LR: "withdrawn 12/71 AHC // N.Y.C. 1931"
Provenance

Walker Evans; Arnold H. Crane, late 1960s
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