ticketsMember | Make a donation
Search
Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935

Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935

Webb, Virginia-Lee
2000
112 pages
89 illustrations
This title is out of print.
Download PDF (10.78 MB)Read online
View More Publication Info

Director's Foreword
Acknowledgments

Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935

Introduction

The Exhibition of African Art

The Traveling Exhibition of Sculptures

The Portfolio of Photographs by Walker Evans

The Traveling Exhibition of Photographs

Perfect Documents

Notes

Plates

Bibliography

Archival Sources

Appendix 1: List of Venues and Dates for the Exhibition of Sculpture "African Negro Art"

Appendix 2: Distribution and Formats of the Walker Evans Portfolios

Appendix 3: Dates and Venues for the Circulating Exhibition "Photographs of African Negro Art by Walker Evans"

Appendix 4: Contents and 1935 Arrangement of the Traveling Exhibition "Photographs of African Negro Art by Walker Evans"

Photograph Credits
Index
Walker Evans Photographs

Met Art in Publication

[Walker Evans Seated on Roof of Apartment Building at 441 East 92nd Street, New York City], Janice Loeb American, Gelatin silver print
[Walker Evans Seated on Roof of Apartment Building at 441 East 92nd Street, New York City]
Janice Loeb
1938–40
[Manuscript, Typescript, and Carbon Notes, Including Notebook of Exposure Records, Correspondence, and Nine Gelatin Silver Prints Relating to African Art Portfolio Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art], Walker Evans American
[Manuscript, Typescript, and Carbon Notes, Including Notebook of Exposure Records, Correspondence, and Nine Gelatin Silver Prints Relating to African Art Portfolio Commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art]
Walker Evans
1935–52

Related Content

Essays and timelines

Citation

View Citations

Webb, Virginia-Lee, and Walker Evans. 2000. Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams.