Subway Portrait, 1938-1941

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 9.6 x 8.5 cm (3 3/4 x 3 3/8 in.)
mount: 15.9 x 19.1 cm (6 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Kent and Marcia Minichiello, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1990.114.8

Artists / Makers

Walker Evans (artist) American, 1903 - 1975

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Inscription

center verso stamped twice: WALKER EVANS / 1681 YORK AVENUE / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10028; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 66.1104; lower center verso in graphite: 23

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. Kent Minichiello, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Minichiello, Kent, Dr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

1966: Walker Evans' Subway, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966.

1991: Walker Evans: Subway Photographs and Other Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 1991-1992.

Bibliography

1966: Evans, Walker. Many Are Called. Boston, 1966: p. 63 (variant: cropped to include more of negative).

1982: Thompson, Jerry L. Walker Evans at Work. New York, 1982: p. 153 (below left).

1991: Greenough 1991, p. 12.