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The New School for Social Research

Walker Evans American
ca. 1930
Not on view
Evans made this photograph when the New School building in Greenwich Village was completed. Its streamlined appearance, accentuated by the contrast with older brick dwellings on either side, signaled the school’s progressive ideology and Art Deco design. The school was soon considered one of New York’s most important centers of modern thought and art. The building featured murals by Thomas Hart Benton and José Clemente Orozco as well as a gallery of modern art drawn from the collection of the Société Anonyme, an avant-garde organization founded by artist, patron, and social reformer Katherine Dreier.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The New School for Social Research
  • Artist: Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)
  • Date: ca. 1930
  • Medium: Gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions: 17.5 x 12.4 cm. (6 7/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Gift of Myriam and Harry Lunn, 1995
  • Object Number: 1995.560.3
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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