Subway Portrait

1938

Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Kent and Marcia Minichiello

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.)
    image: 14.8 x 20.7 cm (5 13/16 x 8 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1988.56.55

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.

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.

2003

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

Bibliography

1991

  • Greenough 1991, pl. 48.

Inscriptions

lower left verso in graphite: Subway series - unpublished; center right verso sideways: Evans estate stamp with inventory number VI-187 added in graphite; all other inscriptio ns by later hands in graphite, lLv//: INV #55; lCv//: #717; lRv//: WEv.128.y #

Wikidata ID

Q64171737

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