Subway Portrait
1938-1941
Artist, American, 1903 - 1975
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 7.5 x 5 cm (2 15/16 x 1 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1988.56.37
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dr. and Mrs. Kent Minichiello, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 1988.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1991
Walker Evans: Subway Photographs and Other Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 1991-1992.
Bibliography
1966
Many Are Called. Boston, 1966: p. 119 (variant: cropped to include man on right).
1991
Greenough 1991, pl. 40.
Inscriptions
across bottom verso: Evans estate stamp with inventory number VI-118 added in graphite; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: INV#37
Wikidata ID
Q64171177