Chicago, 1946

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet: 5.1 x 5.4 cm (2 x 2 1/8 in.)
mount: 27.8 x 22 cm (10 15/16 x 8 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel Fund

Accession Number

1990.38.6

Artists / Makers

Walker Evans (artist) American, 1903 - 1975

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Inscription

all inscriptions on paper backing and by later hands, lower left in graphite: CHICAGO LOOP / WOMEN SHOPPERS / STATE + RANDOLPH; lower center in graphite: 8/46; lower right in graphite: 20E; lower right verso in graphite: CEO / 495; lower left verso in graphite: #1; lower left verso: Evans estate stamp with

Provenance

(Lunn Limited, New York, NY); purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Lunn Limited

Exhibition History

1991: Walker Evans: Subway Photographs and Other Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Addison Gallery, Andover, 1991-1992.

Bibliography

1947: "Chicago: A Camera Exploration of the Huge, Energetic Urban Sprawl of the Midlands." Fortune 35:2 (February 1947): 112-121.

1991: Greenough 1991, p. 21, fig. 2.2.