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Walker Evans

♂  American, 1903–1975

Walker Evans has been in 49 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1933 and 1989.

49 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Walker Evans: Photographs of Nineteenth-Century Houses

16 November to 8 December 1933

Walker Evans was involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

7 December 1936 to 17 January 1937

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photography 1839–1937

17 March to 18 April 1937

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Three Centuries of American Art

24 May to 31 July 1938

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Walker Evans: American Photographs

28 September to 18 November 1938

Walker Evans was involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Seven American Photographers

10 May to 30 September 1939

Man Ray, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott and Ansel Adams, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Sixty Photographs: A Survey of Camera Esthetics

31 December 1940 to 12 January 1941

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Photographs at $10

3 December 1941 to 4 January 1942

Charles Sheeler, László Moholy-Nagy, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition New Acquisitions: Photographs

13 January to 25 February 1942

Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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The Artists' New York

28 January to 2 March 1942

Ben Shahn, George Grosz, Edward Hopper and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Twentieth Century Portraits

9 December 1942 to 24 January 1943

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Portraits

4 November to 7 December 1943

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photography

24 May to 17 September 1944

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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The Museum Collection of Photographs

20 June 1945 to 23 June 1946

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition In and Out of Focus: A Survey of Today's Photography

6 April to 11 July 1948

Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

27 July to 26 September 1948

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Color Photography

9 May to 4 July 1950

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstraction in Photography

1 May to 4 July 1951

Edward Steichen, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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12 Photographers

12 July to 12 August 1951

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Then and Now

5–18 August 1952

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Diogenes with a Camera III

17 January to 18 March 1956

Edward Steichen, Walker Evans, Paul Strand and Kathleen Haven, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photographs from the Museum Collection

26 November 1958 to 18 January 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum

18–29 November 1959

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and John Szarkowski, among others, were involved.

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50 Photographs by 50 Photographers

3 April to 15 May 1962

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Walker Evans: American Photographs

8 June 1962 to 14 February 1963

Walker Evans and Grace M. Mayer were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Bitter Years: 1935–1941

18 October to 25 November 1962

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center

Started 27 May 1964

Edward Steichen, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Photographer's Eye

27 May to 23 August 1964

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Walker Evans' Subway, 1938–1941

5 October to 11 December 1966

John Szarkowski and Walker Evans were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Steichen Gallery Reinstallation

Started 25 October 1967

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Ben Schultz Memorial Exhibition

9 February to 31 March 1968

John Szarkowski, Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Paul Strand, among others, were involved.

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Portrait Photographs

9 July to 28 September 1969

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Photo Eye of the 20s

4 June to 8 September 1970

Max Ernst, Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Walker Evans

27 January to 12 April 1971

John Szarkowski and Walker Evans were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Artist as Adversary

1 July to 27 September 1971

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Georges Rouault, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Public Landscapes

11 September to 1 December 1974

Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott and Henri Cartier-Bresson, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Walker Evans, 1903–1975

14 April to 22 June 1975

Walker Evans was involved.

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Photography for Collectors

16 March to 20 June 1976

John Szarkowski, Edward Weston, Walker Evans and Berenice Abbott, among others, were involved.

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Rooms

7 December 1976 to 6 February 1977

Henri Matisse, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition New Standpoints: Photography, 1940–1955

6 February to 30 April 1978

Walker Evans, Helen Levitt, Robert Frank and Lisette Model, among others, were involved.

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Views over America

4 June to 30 July 1979

Claes Oldenburg, Lyonel Feininger, John Marin and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Art of the Twenties

14 November 1979 to 22 January 1980

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation

Started 21 December 1979

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Reinstallation of the Collection

Started 23 October 1980

Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Still Life

8 October 1981 to 3 January 1982

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, Man Ray and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink

15 November 1984 to 3 March 1985

Edward Steichen, Charles Sheeler, John Szarkowski and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840–1985

7 November 1985 to 7 January 1986

Edward Steichen, Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy and Edward Weston, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Variants

12 December 1985 to 11 March 1986

Edward Steichen, John Szarkowski, Edward Weston and Walker Evans, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Walker Evans: American Photographs

19 January to 11 April 1989

Walker Evans and Peter Galassi were involved.