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: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
    image: 17 x 23.5 cm (6 11/16 x 9 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1988.56.40

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.

1999

  • The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1999, not in cat.

2003

  • "Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth Century Photograph", Tate Modern, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2003-2004.

Bibliography

1966

  • Many Are Called. Boston, 1966: p. 119 (variant: cropped to include only man and woman on right).

1978

  • Walker Evans: First and Last. New York, 1978: p. 136 (below).

1991

  • Greenough 1991, pl. 31.

Inscriptions

center verso: Evans estate stamp with inventory number VI-118 added in graphite; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: B.L 805; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: INV#40

Wikidata ID

Q64171704

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