Subway Portrait

1938-1941

Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Kent and Marcia Minichiello

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 20.3 x 14.2 cm (8 x 5 9/16 in.)
    image: 13.8 x 11.6 cm (5 7/16 x 4 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1988.56.10

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. Kent Minichiello, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 1988.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

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

Bibliography

1966

  • Many Are Called. Boston, 1966: pl. 15 (variant: cropped to include another woman on left).

1991

  • Greenough 1991, pl. 42.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: 2 1/2; upper right verso: Evans estate stamp with inventory number VI-14 added in graphite; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: INV #10; by unkno wn hand, lRv//in graphite: IN1

Wikidata ID

Q64171609

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