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: 20.2 x 25.7 cm (7 15/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
    image: 12.9 x 19.4 cm (5 1/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1989.11.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1989

  • Art Institute of Chicago, 1989.

1991

  • Walker Evans: Subway Portraits 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. 123.

1978

  • Walker Evans: First and Last. New York, 1978: p. 134 (above).

1991

  • Greenough 1991, pl. 21.

Inscriptions

center verso: Evans estate stamp with inventory number VI-122 added in graphite; by later hand(?), center left verso in graphite: 832 / 5 + 1 / [2?]5

Wikidata ID

Q64171755

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