Bridgeport, Connecticut

1941

Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

Walker Evans

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Kent and Marcia Minichiello

  • Dimensions

    image: 22.6 x 17.4 cm (8 7/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 25.2 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.111.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. Kent Minichiello, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

  • Walker Evans: Subway Photographs and Other Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, November 24, 1991 - March 1, 1992

2012

  • I Spy: Photography and the Theater of the Street, 1938-2010, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April 22 – August 5, 2012

2017

  • "Walker Evans", Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1991

  • Greenough 1991, pl. 57

2012

  • Greenough 2012, pl. 6

Inscriptions

on verso, Evans estate stamp with graphite addition: VIII / 50; by unknown hand, center in graphite: R / 19; lower left corner: 96; lower right: "In Bridgeport's War Factories" / Fortune, September 1941

Wikidata ID

Q64170049

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