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: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
image: 17 x 23.5 cm (6 11/16 x 9 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1988.56.40
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.
1999
The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1999, not in cat.
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. 119 (variant: cropped to include only man and woman on right).
1978
Walker Evans: First and Last. New York, 1978: p. 136 (below).
1991
Greenough 1991, pl. 31.
Inscriptions
center verso: Evans estate stamp with inventory number VI-118 added in graphite; by later hand, upper left verso in graphite: B.L 805; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: INV#40
Wikidata ID
Q64171704