Subway Portrait

January 1941

Walker Evans

Associated Names
Walker Evans

Artist, American, 1903 - 1975

The image displays a partial view of two individuals standing side by side from the waist up. The man is slightly turned to his right, wearing a light-colored fedora hat, dark coat, shirt, and tie. He has dark hair and a focused expression with a strong jawline. The woman is facing forward with light-colored hair under a dark hat, casting a shadow over her eyes. She wears minimal makeup and stud earrings. The background shows subway station signs like "LEX.AVE.LOCAL," "CITY HALL," and "PELHAM BAY PARK," with a poster advertising concerts at "The Metropolitan Museum of Art."
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. and Mrs. Kent Minichiello, Washington, D.C.; 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.

1994

  • George Grosz: Berlin - New York, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin and Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1994-1995.

1996

  • City of Ambition: Artists and New York, 1900-1960, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1996.

2017

  • "Walker Evans", Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1991

  • Greenough 1991, pl. 35.

Inscriptions

center verso stamped: WALKER EVANS / 1681 YORK AVENUE / NEW YORK, N.Y. 10028; by later hand, upper right verso in graphite: 66.1117; lower center verso in graphite: 29

Wikidata ID

Q64170990

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