Walker Evans — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works12185

Museum Acquisitions

Whitney

MoMA

Previous Sales 321

Bonhams

Walker Evans (1903-1975); Untitled (Chicago);

$600

Feb 2026

Sotheby's

Allie Mae Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama (Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife), 1936

$3,200

Oct 2025

Christie's

Negro Barber Shop Interior, Atlanta, 1936

$3,024

Oct 2024

Christie's

Farmhouse Interior, near Copake, New York, 1933

$1,512

Oct 2024

Christie's

Minstrel Showbill, Alabama, 1936, 1936

Bought In

Oct 2024

Christie's

Outdoor Advertising, Florida, 1934

Bought In

Oct 2024

Christie's

Bedroom, Tengle Family House, Hale County, Alabama, 1936

Bought In

Oct 2024

Christie's

Subway Portrait, (Sailor), New York City, 1938-1941

$40,320

Feb 2024

Christie's

Subway Portrait, New York, 1941

$17,640

Feb 2024

Christie's

The Super Wrench and Open-Ended Crescent Wrench, (from Beauties of the Common Tool for Fortune), 1955

$15,120

Feb 2024

Christie's

Church Organ with Pews, Alabama, 1936

$4,788

Feb 2024

Christie's

Gilded Pediment Eagle, Charleston, South Carolina, 1937

$3,276

Feb 2024

Sotheby's

Lincoln Kirstein Attempting to Cut the Stem of a Funnel

$10,000

Apr 2023

Sotheby's

Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama

Bought In

Apr 2023

Sotheby's

Frank Tengle, A Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama

Bought In

Oct 2022

Christie's

Streetcar, El Cerro District, Havana, 1933

$4,000

Oct 2021

Christie's

Shanties, Outskirts of Havana, 1933

Sotheby's

Christie's

Alabama cotton tenant farmer family (Fields family), 1936

$81,250

Oct 2019

Christie's

Subway Portrait, January 13, 1941

$27,500

Oct 2019

Christie's

Citizen in Downtown Havana, 1933

$22,500

Oct 2019

Christie's

Lunchroom Buddies, New York City, 1931

$21,250

Oct 2019

Christie's

Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1941

$10,625

Oct 2019

Christie's

Corner of State and Randolph Streets, Chicago, Illinois, 1946

$1,500

Apr 2019

Christie's

Allie Mae Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama, 1936

$125,000

Oct 2018

For Sale 1

Peder Lund · Artsy

Furniture Sign, Near Birmingham, Alabama, 1936

Price on request

Gelatin silver print on Masonite

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Market1,179 auction results

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$256 – $198K

256 of 327 photographs lots with prices

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$13.1K

Object-type specific

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$2.9K

256 priced photographs lots

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Apr 2026 · $2.5K

Latest tracked sale in this object type

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Photographs: $2.9K medianWorks on paper: $1.8K medianSculpture/objects: — medianPosters/ephemera: $3.0K medianUnclassified lots: $3.3K medianEditioned photos: $1.6K medianBooks/portfolios: $2.0K medianEditioned objects: $1.7K median

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Publications12

Exhibition Catalog 9

Walker Evans: Depth Of Field

Prestel · 2015

Walker Evans: Decade by Decade

Hatje Cantz · 2012

Street Life & Home Stories: Fotografien aus der Sammlung Goetz

Hatje Cantz · 2011

Street Life & Home Stories: Photographs from the Goetz Collection

Hatje Cantz · 2011

Walker Evans: Decade by Decade

Hatje Cantz · 2010

Photographing America: Henri Cartier-Bresson / Walker Evans Author

Thames & Hudson · 2009

Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard

Steidl · 2009

Cruel and Tender: Zärtlich und grausam - Fotografie und das Wirkliche

Hatje Cantz · 2003

Walker Evans & company

Abrams · 2000

Group Catalog 2

Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans

Steidl · 2022

fotofokus: Fotosammlung Jeane von Oppenheim im Norton Museum of Art

Hatje Cantz · 2000

Survey 1

Shopping: A Century of Art and Consumer Culture

Hatje Cantz · 2002

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Current Exhibitions1

#208 Fahey/Klein Gallery

Double Take: Photographs in Pairs

Julie Blackmon, Irving Penn, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, Walker Evans, Yves Klein, Bruce Weber, André Kertész, Steve Schapiro, Ruven Afanador, Patrick Demarchelier, Mary Ellen Mark, Sheila Metzner, Mark Seliger, Miles Aldridge, Peter Lindbergh, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Teun Hocks, Duane Michals, Arthur Elgort, Janette Beckman, Albert Watson, Melvin Sokolsky, Herbert List, John Dominis, Lauren Greenfield, Dan Winters, Harry Bowers, Flor Garduño, Erik Madigan Heck, Frank W. Ockenfels III, Tom Bianchi, Sanford Roth, Harry Shunk, János Kender, Alex Stoddard, Todd Weaver, Nik Wheeler

148 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90036, United States

Jun 11, 2026 — Jul 18, 2026

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Recent News20

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