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Shawn Walker

Shawn Walker

1940

WA-00044020

Harlem, NY, USA

Photography

Representation

None documented

0

Institutional Exhibitions

5

Works in Collection

13

Assets Indexed

6

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

60%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ42156278

Field Verification (5 fields)

4 cross-verified · 1 single-source

Birth yearArtsy + Duplicate Merge· 85%✓
Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
BiographyDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
Primary mediumDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%

Source Registry (1)

Aichttps://www.artic.edu/artists/59975
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred95%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Shawn Walker yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

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Medium

Photography

Related Artists

6 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

Canonical record

Artworks (5)

James Baldwin’s mother and sister at his funeral

1987 · Gelatin silver print

Sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm) Image: 7 3/8 × 9 7/16 in. (18.7 × 24 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

1975 · gelatin silver print

Image: 40.8 x 31 cm (16 1/16 x 12 3/16 in.); Paper: 50.3 x 40.3 cm (19 13/16 x 15 7/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Easter Sunday, Harlem (125th Street)

1972 · Gelatin silver print

Sheet: 7 3/4 × 9 3/4 in. (19.7 × 24.8 cm) Image: 6 1/4 × 8 1/2 in. (15.9 × 21.6 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Untitled (18th Street, Harlem, New York)

1965 · gelatin silver print

Image: 13.2 x 19.3 cm (5 3/16 x 7 5/8 in.); Paper: 35.4 x 27.6 cm (13 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.); Mounted: 35.5 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Man with Bubble, Central Park (near Bandshell)

1960 · Gelatin silver print

Sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm) Image: 7 3/8 × 9 3/8 in. (18.7 × 23.9 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Artwork sources (3)

5 published of 6 catalogued · 1 with image

Whitney
3 published
Cleveland Museum of Art
2 published
+ 1 more source · 1 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 2)

2 entries · 1 sources

Untitled
1975 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled (18th Street, Harlem, New York)
1965 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy artwork: Guyana #1 (1972)

Artsy

Artsy artwork: Guyana #3 (1972)

Artsy

Artsy artwork: Harlem (1960s)

Artsy

Artsy artwork: Innocence (1970)

Artsy

Artsy artwork: Brooklyn (1960s)

Artsy

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Harlem, 116th Street (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

2

Collections2

Art Institute of Chicago Whitney Museum of American Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

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