Subway Portrait
January 1941
Artist, American, 1903 - 1975
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard
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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): 13.6 x 18.2 cm (5 3/8 x 7 3/16 in.)
mount: 27.5 x 21.3 cm (10 13/16 x 8 3/8 in.) -
Accession
1990.114.7
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