Subway Portrait, 1938-1941

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet: 20.1 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Kent and Marcia Minichiello

Accession Number

1988.56.8

Artists / Makers

Walker Evans (artist) American, 1903 - 1975

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: 3 1/2 sec; on bond paper taped to photographic sheet, center verso: Evans estate stamp with inventory number VI-12 added in graphite; by l ater hand, lLv//in graphite: INV

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Minichiello, Kent, Dr. and Mrs.

Exhibition History

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

2003: "Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth Century Photograph", Tate Modern, London; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2003-2004.

Bibliography

1966: Many Are Called. Boston, 1966: p. 13 (variant: cropped to include only woman on left).

1991: Greenough 1991, pl. 46.