Walker Evans and Boston's Victorian Architecture

When:
Tuesday, Oct 15, 2019 6:00p -
8:00p

Where:
The Gibson House Museum
137 Beacon St.
Boston, Massachusetts 02116

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Admission:
$15

Categories:
Art, Lectures & Conferences, Social Good

Event website:
www.thegibsonhouse.org/events

In 1931, the photographer Walker Evans, later famous for his collaboration with author James Agee documenting the effects of the Depression, joined Lincoln Kirstein, his early patron, and architect/poet John Brooks Wheelwright in a project to photograph Boston-area Victorian architecture for a book Wheelwright was writing on this subject. Many of the resulting iconic images are in the permanent collections of museums. Join Stephen Jerome, architectural and social historian and a past Gibson House resident guide, for a slideshow about this rare archive of Victorian architecture and the three luminaries behind it.


6:00 reception, 6:30 program
Registration required
$12 members, $15 non-members
Purchase tickets online at www.thegibsonhouse.org/events.


Completed in 1860, the Gibson House stands virtually untouched as a nonprofit historic house museum in Back Bay. The house is open to the public year round for guided tours and events such as self-guided open houses, LGBT history tours, book talks, and more. Visitors enjoy a glimpse into Boston's past through the lens of the Gibson family, including the museum's queer founder, Charlie Gibson, and the domestic staff who lived and worked there.


The Gibson House Museum is located at 137 Beacon Street, between Arlington and Berkeley Streets, convenient to both the Arlington Street subway stop on the Green Line and the Charles Street and Park Street subway stops on the Red Line.


Image: 19th century architecture photo by Walker Evans

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