Subway Portrait, January 1941

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard

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.)

Credit Line

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

Accession Number

1990.114.7

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: 66.1117; lower center verso in graphite: 29

Provenance

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

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.