Subway Portrait, 1938-1941

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

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.)

Credit Line

Gift of Kent and Marcia Minichiello, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1990.114.4

Artists / Makers

Walker Evans (artist) American, 1903 - 1975

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Inscription

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

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. Kent Minichiello, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 1990.

Associated Names

Minichiello, Kent, Dr. and Mrs.

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.