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[12 Postcards Sent by Walker Evans to 10 Recipients, Later Retrieved by the Artist and Filed with his Collection of Postcards]

1900s–1970s
Not on view

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Object Information
  • Title: [12 Postcards Sent by Walker Evans to 10 Recipients, Later Retrieved by the Artist and Filed with his Collection of Postcards]
  • Author: Walker Evans (American, St. Louis, Missouri 1903–1975 New Haven, Connecticut)
  • Correspondent: James Agee (American, Knoxville, Tennessee 1909–1955 New York)
  • Correspondent: Samuel Bryant
  • Correspondent: John Cheever
  • Correspondent: Hedley Donovan (American, 1914–1990)
  • Correspondent: Jane Smith Evans (American, 1913–2005)
  • Correspondent: Romana Javitz (American (born Russia), 1903–1980)
  • Correspondent: Lincoln Kirstein (American, 1907–1996)
  • Correspondent: Jay Leyda (American, 1910–1988)
  • Correspondent: Janice Loeb (American, born 1913)
  • Correspondent: Joan Stack
  • Date: 1900s–1970s
  • Medium: Photomechanical prints
  • Dimensions: 9 x 14cm (3 9/16 x 5 1/2in.)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Walker Evans Archive, 1994
  • Object Number: 1994.264.112
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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