Art Museum of WVU is first stop for ‘Walker Evans American Photographs’
The Art Museum of West Virginia University is the first venue on a national tour of an installation that celebrates photographer Walker Evans’s landmark solo exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1938. A leading figure in the history of American documentary photography, Evans is today considered one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century.
The exhibition opens Jan. 22 and runs through April 25.