Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Gift of Kent and Marcia Minichiello, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 17.2 x 12.3 cm (6 3/4 x 4 13/16 in.)
mount: 28 x 21.4 cm (11 x 8 7/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1990.114.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dr. and Mrs. Kent Minichiello, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 1990.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1966
Walker Evans' Subway, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966.
1991
Walker Evans: Subway Photographs and Other Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Addison Gallery, Andover, 1991-1992.
2000
"World Without End: Photography and the 20th Century", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000-2001, unnumbered catalogue reproduction.
2017
"Walker Evans", Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1966
Many Are Called. Boston, 1966: p. 57 (variant: cropped to include man on left).
1982
Thompson, Jerry L. Walker Evans at Work. New York, 1982: p. 157 (above left).
1991
Greenough 1991, pl. 28.
Inscriptions
center verso stamped: WALKER EVANS / 1681 YORK AVENUE / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10028; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 66.1118; lower center verso in graphite: 13
Wikidata ID
Q64171023