East Lyme: Two visits to Walker Evans’ House in Connecticut

First edition of East Lyme: Two visits to Walker Evans’ House in Connecticut by Mark Ruwedel and James Welling (2024)

Hardcover, 8 x 11 inches, 32 pages, 12 duotone and four-color plates

About

Walker Evans lived in this house in East Lyme, Connecticut, from 1967 until shortly before his death in 1975. The house was designed by Evans and his friend Robert Busser, a Yale architecture student. Letters and postcards were often addressed to Old Lyme or Lyme because their Mail truck turned around at Stewart’s Corner, East Lyme.

Dale Callaway, current owner of the house, writes: “What changed was the post office deciding it was about time for East Lyme to take over that route. A letter would arrive here with almost any address on it because the majority of Mail carriers just knew who lived where.”

James Welling visited in August, 2016. Mark Ruwedel visited in January, 2018. They were unaware of each other’s visits until later. The black-and-white photographs are by Ruwedel. The color photographs are by Welling.

This first edition of East Lyme: Two visits to Walker Evans’ House in Connecticut is limited to 500 copies.

James Welling is an American artist, photographer and educator living in New York City. His work is represented in such permanent collections as Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; and Whitney Museum of American Art.

Mark Ruwedel is an American landscape photographer and educator. His work is represented in such permanent collections as J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.