Subway Portrait

1938-1941

Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

Walker Evans

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lunn, Jr., New York, NY; gift to 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.

1994

  • George Grosz: Berlin - New York, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin and Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1994-1995.

1996

  • City of Ambition: Artists and New York, 1900-1960, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1996.

Bibliography

1966

  • Many Are Called. Boston, 1966: p. 177.

1991

  • Greenough 1991, pl. 51.

Inscriptions

lower center verso: Evans estate stamp with inventory number VI-176 added in graphite; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: WE.213

Wikidata ID

Q64171834

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