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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: 15.9 x 12.1 cm (6 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.)
Accession

1988.56.54

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Dr. and Mrs. Kent Minichiello

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

1991

Greenough 1991, pl. 47.

Inscriptions

center verso sideways: Evans estate stamp with inventory number VI-187 added in graphite; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: INV#54

Wikidata ID

Q64171736

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