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[Lunchroom Window, New York]

Walker Evans American
1929
Not on view
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Lunchroom Window, New York]
  • Artist: Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)
  • 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
  • Object Number: 1971.646.35
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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