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Walker Evans Biography
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1903 |
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Born: St. Louis, Missouri (November 3)
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1922 |
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Graduates from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Attends Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts for a year.
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1941 |
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Receives the Guggenheim Fellowship.
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1959 |
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Evans receives his second Guggenheim Fellowship award.
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1968 |
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Receives honorary degree from Williams College. Becomes Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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1973 |
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Received Grant from Mark Rothko Foundation.
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1975 |
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Died: New Haven, Connecticut (April 10)
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2005
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"Walker Evans: African Art," Gallery Luisotti. Santa Monica, California, November 13 - January 8, 2005. -solo
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1966
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Szarkowski, John, curator. "Walker Evans: Subway Photographs," The Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York, October 5-December 11, 1966. -solo
"Walker Evans," Robert Schoelkopf Gallery. New York, New York. December 16-January 7, 1967. -solo
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1964
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Edwards, Hugh, curator. "Walker Evans," The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois, November 13-January 10, 1965. -solo
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1962
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"Walker Evans: American Photographs," The Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York. June 8-August 14, 1962. -solo
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1948
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"Walker Evans Retrospective," The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois, November 14-January 4, 1948. -solo
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1938
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"Walker Evans: American Photographs," Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York, September 28-November 18, 1938. -solo
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1935
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"African Negro Art: A Corpus of Photographs by Walker Evans," The Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York. March 18-May 19, 1935. -solo
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1933
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"Walker Evans: Photographs of Nineteenth-Century Houses," The Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York, November 16-December 8, 1933. -solo
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| Links to further information |
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