New York City

1928-1929

Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    John Wilmerding Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 9.3 x 5.7 cm (3 11/16 x 2 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1989.69.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lunn Limited, New York, NY; purchased with donated funds from John Wilmerding by NGA, 1989.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1991

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

Bibliography

1982

  • Walker Evans at Work. New York, 1982: p. 39 (above center).

1991

  • Greenough 1991, pl. 4.

Inscriptions

center verso: Evans estate stamp with inventory number XIV-24 added in graphite; by later hand, center verso in graphite: c.1929 / XIV; by later hand, lower left verso in graph ite: #3; by later hand, uRv//in graphite: .079

Wikidata ID

Q64171767

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