Subway Portrait

1938-1941

Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    John Wilmerding Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 20.3 x 25.3 cm (8 x 9 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1989.11.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. Kent Minichiello, Washington, DC; purchased with donated funds from John Wilmerding by NGA, 1989.

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

1991

  • Greenough 1991, pl. 43.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: 3S; lower center verso: Evans estate stamp with inventory number VI-14v added in graphite; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: #1583; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: WEv.153.y; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 4

Wikidata ID

Q64171742

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