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A suit jacket displayed on a mannequin with 'Dry Cleaning' sign beneath it.

Photographs

Hand-painted 'Dry Cleaning' Sign, Near Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Walker Evans

1936, printed 1971

Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 1/4 in. (18.7 × 23.5 cm) Image: 7 3/8 × 9 1/4 in. (18.7 × 23.5 cm) Mount (board): 18 × 14 9/16 in. (45.7 × 37 cm)
Accession number
2023.175
Acquired
2023
Credit line
Gift of Marcia L. Due and Jerry L. Thompson in memory of Norman Ives
Edition
56/100
Department
collection

About this work

Walker Evans, Hand-painted 'Dry Cleaning' Sign, Near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1936, printed 1971. Gelatin silver print, sheet: 7 3/8 × 9 1/4 in. (18.7 × 23.5 cm) Image: 7 3/8 × 9 1/4 in. (18.7 × 23.5 cm) Mount (board): 18 × 14 9/16 in. (45.7 × 37 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Marcia L. Due and Jerry L. Thompson in memory of Norman Ives 2023.175

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