Subway Portrait
1938-1941
Artist, American, 1903 - 1975
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
Gift of Kent and Marcia Minichiello, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 14.9 x 11.4 cm (5 7/8 x 4 1/2 in.)
mount: 28.1 x 21.5 cm (11 1/16 x 8 7/16 in.) -
Accession
1990.114.4
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dr. and Mrs. Kent Minichiello, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 1990.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1966
Walker Evans' Subway, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966.
1991
Walker Evans: Subway Photographs and Other Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, 1991-1992.
2000
"World Without End: Photography and the 20th Century", Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2000-2001, unnumbered catalogue reproduction.
Bibliography
1966
Evans, Walker. Many Are Called. Boston, 1966, p. 9 (variant: cropped to show more of negative).
1982
Thompson, Jerry L. Walker Evans at Work. New York, 1982: p. 154 (above left).
1991
Greenough 1991, pl. 22.
Inscriptions
center verso stamped: WALKER EVANS / 1681 YORK AVENUE / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10028; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 66.1101; lower center verso in graphite: 17
Wikidata ID
Q64170997