versity’s School of Art and Architecture, 1965–1972;
Elected fellow in American Academy of Arts and Let-
ters, 1968; Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College,
1972–1973; Distinguished Service Award from the
American Academy Institute, 1974; Dies in New Ha-
ven, Connecticut, 10 April 1975.Selected Individual Exhibitions
1933 Walker Evans: Photographs of Nineteenth-Century
Houses; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1935 Photographs of African Negro Art by Walker Evans;
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, and
traveling
1938 Walker Evans: American Photographs; Museum of
Modern Art, New York, New York
1947 Walker Evans Retrospective; Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois
1966 Walker Evans Subway; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
1967 Walker Evans; Robert Schoelkopf Gallery, New York,
New York
1970 Walker Evans: Painting and Photographs; The Century
Association, New York, New York
1971 Walker Evans; Museum of Modern Art, New York,
New York, and traveled to Corcoran Gallery, Washing-
ton, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
California; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Flor-
ida; City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; University of
Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Art
Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
1972 Walker Evans: Forty Years; Yale University Art Gal-
lery, New Haven, Connecticut
1973 Walker Evans: Photographs from the ‘‘Let Us Now
Praise Famous Men’’ Project; Michener Galleries, Uni-
versity of Texas, Austin, Texas
1974 Walker Evans: Vintage Photographs, 1928–1972; Lunn
Gallery/Graphics International, Ltd., Washington, D.C.
1977 Walker Evans at ‘‘Fortune,’’ 1945–1965; Jewett Arts
Center, Wellesley, Massachusetts
1978 Walker Evans: Lost and Found; Drink Hall, New
York, New York
1981 Walker Evans Retrospective; Comfort Gallery, Haver-
ford, Pennsylvania
1985 The Sunny South: Depression Era Photographs by
Walker Evans; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
1990 Walker Evans: Havana 1933; PhotoFest, Houston, Texas
1991 Walker Evans Subways and Streets; National Gallery
of Art, Washington, D.C.
1992 Walker Evans:An Alabama Record; J. Paul Getty
Museum, Malibu, California
1993 Walker Evans: Polaroids 1973–1974; 292 Gallery, New
York, New York
1998 Walker Evans: Simple Secrets; International Center of
Photography Uptown, New York, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
1931 Photographs by Three Americans; John Becker Gal-
lery, New York, New York
1931 Modern Photographs by Walker Evans and George
Platt Lynes; Julien Levy Gallery, New York, New York
Documentary and Anti-Graphic: Photographs by Man-
uel Alvarez-Bravo, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker
Evans; Julien Levy Gallery, New York, New York
1943 Masters of Photography; Museum of Modern Art,
New York, New York
1951 Twelve Photographers; Museum of Modern Art, New
York, New York
1955 Contemporary American Photography; Museum of
Modern Art, New York, New York, and traveling
Farm Security Administration Photography; Brooklyn
Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
1962 The Bitter Years, 1935–1941; Museum of Modern Art,
New York, New York
1964 The Photographer’s Eye; Museum of Modern Art,
New York, New York
1965 Contemporary Art at Yale I; Yale University Art Gal-
lery, New Haven, Connecticut
1968 Just Before the War: Urban America from 1935 to
1941, As Seen by Photographers of the Farm Security
Administration; Newport Beach Art Museum, Newport
Beach, California
1969 The Descriptive Condition–Seven Photographers; Bos-
ton University, Boston, Massachusetts
1976 Photography in America; Whitney Museum of Amer-
ican Art, New York, New York
1977 America Observed: Etchings by Edward Hopper, Photo-
graphs by Walker Evans; California Palace of the Legion
of Honor, San Francisco, California
1978 Roy Stryker: The Humane Propagandist; Photographic
Archives, University of Louisville, Kentucky
1979 Two Classic Documentary Photographers: Marion Post
Wolcott and Walker Evans; Nova Gallery, Vancouver, B.
C., Canada
William Carlos Williams and the American Scene,
1920–1940; Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, New York
1981 Cubism in American Photography, 1910–1950; Sterling
& Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massa-
chusetts
1982 Three Generations: Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Tod
Papageorge; University Art
1983 Galleries, University of New Hampshire, Durham,
New Hampshire
1987 The Machine Age in America, 1918–194l; Brooklyn
Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
The Viewer as Voyeur; Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, New York
1991 Walker Evans and Jane Ninas in New Orleans, 1935–
1936 ; Historic New Orleans Collections, New Orleans,
Louisiana
1997 Someone Else with My Fingerprints; David Zwirner
Gallery, New York, New York
2001 About Faces; C&M Arts, New York, New YorkSelected Works
The Crime of Cuba, 1933
American Photographs, 1938; reissued 1962
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families,
1941; reissued 1960
Many Are Called, 1966
Message From the Interior, 1966
First and Last, 1978EVANS, WALKER