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): 20.9 x 19.1 cm (8 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.)
support: 21.5 x 19 cm (8 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
1990.114.6
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dr. and Mrs. Kent Minichiello, Washington, D.C.; 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 of American Art, Andover, 1991-1992.
1996
City of Ambition: Artists and New York, 1900-1960, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1996.
2000
Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 2000 - 2001, unnumbered catalogue.
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
1956
i.e. The Cambridge Review 5 (March 1956): n.p.
1966
Evans, Walker. Many Are Called. Boston, 1966: p. 17.
1982
Thompson, Jerry L. Walker Evans at Work. New York, 1982: p. 157 (center right).
1991
Greenough 1991, pl. 27.
Inscriptions
center verso stamped: WALKER EVANS / 1681 YORK AVENUE / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10028; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 66.1099; lower center verso in graphite: 16; lower right verso in graphit e: c.c.[or e?]
Wikidata ID
Q64171055